Drinking hand sanitizer and 9 other unsettling teen substance-abuse trends
It seems kids these days will huff or consume just about anything to get high. Here, a guide to the everyday products teens are misusing
By The Week Staff | April 26, 2012
Drinking hand sanitizer and 9 other unsettling teen substance-abuse trends
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half dozen teens in California have ended up in emergency rooms after drinking alcohol that had been extracted from hand sanitizer. Through a distillation process, the kids were able to create a moonshine with a whopping 60 percent alcohol content. If that seems dumb and dangerous, here are 9 other surprising ways teens are making the legal illicit:
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