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'Smoking' alcohol is a highly dangerous trend among the calorie-conscious: experts
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'Smoking' alcohol is a highly dangerous trend among the calorie-conscious: experts
In an effort to gain a greater buzz for fewer calories, some young drinkers are inhaling their liquor - either pouring it over dry ice or 'freebasing' it and sucking up the vapors. Either way, going around the stomach and liver is incredibly risky, doctors say.
BY TRACY MILLER / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 2013, 2:50 PM
KCTV
Broderic Allen says he 'smokes' his liquor in order to keep off the 80 pounds he lost when he quit drinking.
In an effort to lose weight, Broderic Allen stopped drinking. The North Texas man lost 80 pounds - but was unwilling to give up his buzz entirely.
Instead, Allen turned to a disturbing technique: inhaling alcohol, which he says provides all of the flavor and intoxication of chugging a mixed drink with none of the sugars and calories.
Allen, who achieves his high by pouring liquor over dry ice and "smoking" the vapors, called the tactic a way to "have my cake and eat it, too."
"I am inhaling it. It just looks like I'm drinking it," Allen told Fox's KCTV-5 as he downed his concoction. "If you do it too much at one time it kind of overwhelms you."
KCTV
Allen uses liquor poured over dry ice in what addiction expert Dr. Harris Stratyner of Caron Treatment Centers says is an 'unbelievably dangerous' way to consume alcohol.
Allen isn't the only one inhaling his drink. A smattering of YouTube videos depicts the trend mostly among young men, some of whom boast about the extreme nature of the high.
In January, Chicago bar Red Kiva hosted a "freebasing alcohol" event featuring a device called the Vaportini, which retails for $30 plus shipping. Users heat a small amount of alcohol in a glass ball over a tea light, then suck the resulting vapors through a straw.
Inhaling alcohol is an insidious trend, particularly among college students who may be looking for more extreme ways to get high, said Dr. Harris Stratyner, regional clinical vice president of Caron Treatment Centers in New York. He has also seen it gain popularity among college-age men and women who may restrict calories before a night of partying - what's popularly known as "drunkorexia."
Whether it's "smoked" using dry ice or inhaled as a vapor, consuming alcohol in this way is "unbelievably dangerous," Stratyner said.
NUB TV VIA YOUTUBE
YouTube videos like this clip from Nub TV depict young men attempting the trend and reveling in the 'extreme' high.
"When you inhale alcohol, it goes directly into the lungs and circumnavigates the liver," he told the Daily News. "The liver is what metabolizes alcohol, but when you inhale it, it goes directly from the lungs to the brain."
The lungs and mucous membranes are extremely sensitive to alcohol, Stratyner said, and inhaling alcoholic vapor may dry out the nasal passages and mouth, leaving users more vulnerable to infection.
Additionally, inhaling alcohol can lead to deadly alcohol poisoning more readily than sipping your drink.
"One of the things that prevents alcohol poisoning is that you usually ? ," Stratyner said. "When you circumvent the stomach and go straight to the lungs, you don't have that ability."
Stratyner first saw the trend pop up in 2004 and said it has escalated in the past year and a half.
"This is a stupid, highly dangerous thing to do," he said. "The fact that youngsters in particular can purchase the equipment for a relatively cheap price...this has to be made illegal."
tmiller@nydailynews.com
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/smoking-alcohol-highly-dangerous-new-trend-experts-article-1.1357657#ixzz2UnS0mmCc
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/smoking-alcohol-highly-dangerous-new-trend-experts-article-1.1357657#ixzz2UnRhwTsT
'Smoking' alcohol is a highly dangerous trend among the calorie-conscious: experts
In an effort to gain a greater buzz for fewer calories, some young drinkers are inhaling their liquor - either pouring it over dry ice or 'freebasing' it and sucking up the vapors. Either way, going around the stomach and liver is incredibly risky, doctors say.
BY TRACY MILLER / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 2013, 2:50 PM
KCTV
Broderic Allen says he 'smokes' his liquor in order to keep off the 80 pounds he lost when he quit drinking.
In an effort to lose weight, Broderic Allen stopped drinking. The North Texas man lost 80 pounds - but was unwilling to give up his buzz entirely.
Instead, Allen turned to a disturbing technique: inhaling alcohol, which he says provides all of the flavor and intoxication of chugging a mixed drink with none of the sugars and calories.
Allen, who achieves his high by pouring liquor over dry ice and "smoking" the vapors, called the tactic a way to "have my cake and eat it, too."
"I am inhaling it. It just looks like I'm drinking it," Allen told Fox's KCTV-5 as he downed his concoction. "If you do it too much at one time it kind of overwhelms you."
KCTV
Allen uses liquor poured over dry ice in what addiction expert Dr. Harris Stratyner of Caron Treatment Centers says is an 'unbelievably dangerous' way to consume alcohol.
Allen isn't the only one inhaling his drink. A smattering of YouTube videos depicts the trend mostly among young men, some of whom boast about the extreme nature of the high.
In January, Chicago bar Red Kiva hosted a "freebasing alcohol" event featuring a device called the Vaportini, which retails for $30 plus shipping. Users heat a small amount of alcohol in a glass ball over a tea light, then suck the resulting vapors through a straw.
Inhaling alcohol is an insidious trend, particularly among college students who may be looking for more extreme ways to get high, said Dr. Harris Stratyner, regional clinical vice president of Caron Treatment Centers in New York. He has also seen it gain popularity among college-age men and women who may restrict calories before a night of partying - what's popularly known as "drunkorexia."
Whether it's "smoked" using dry ice or inhaled as a vapor, consuming alcohol in this way is "unbelievably dangerous," Stratyner said.
NUB TV VIA YOUTUBE
YouTube videos like this clip from Nub TV depict young men attempting the trend and reveling in the 'extreme' high.
"When you inhale alcohol, it goes directly into the lungs and circumnavigates the liver," he told the Daily News. "The liver is what metabolizes alcohol, but when you inhale it, it goes directly from the lungs to the brain."
The lungs and mucous membranes are extremely sensitive to alcohol, Stratyner said, and inhaling alcoholic vapor may dry out the nasal passages and mouth, leaving users more vulnerable to infection.
Additionally, inhaling alcohol can lead to deadly alcohol poisoning more readily than sipping your drink.
"One of the things that prevents alcohol poisoning is that you usually ? ," Stratyner said. "When you circumvent the stomach and go straight to the lungs, you don't have that ability."
Stratyner first saw the trend pop up in 2004 and said it has escalated in the past year and a half.
"This is a stupid, highly dangerous thing to do," he said. "The fact that youngsters in particular can purchase the equipment for a relatively cheap price...this has to be made illegal."
tmiller@nydailynews.com
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/smoking-alcohol-highly-dangerous-new-trend-experts-article-1.1357657#ixzz2UnS0mmCc
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Yeah this was on the news the other day..? is dangerous, buuuut it might help with that beer gut.
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Theres a whole bunch of ways to do this. Me and my white friends filled up a big water bottle about half way with w/e liquor. Put a cork on top of it, then take a bike pump with a needle and stick the needle thru the cork. Then you pump air into the corked bottle. Do it to where you think it might pop if you pump anymore. Then pull the cork out and all this vapor will float in the bottle. Inhale that ? , i swear i got buzzed after 2 hits.
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I'd rather just drink that ? , i only drink that good ? its a waste smoking it.
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That ? you posted first probably got white buddies...
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Nb4 a ? ? swallows the dry ice
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One time we didn't have water on hand, only some Sparks (malt beverage) so we used that in the ? , we were beyond ? up.
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? people always find new ? ways to be dumb ? .
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I'd try this ?
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Another one on the list of "stupid ? white people do"
I bet some punk chemistry student came up with this idea. -
Lou Cypher wrote: »Theres a whole bunch of ways to do this. Me and my white friends filled up a big water bottle about half way with w/e liquor. Put a cork on top of it, then take a bike pump with a needle and stick the needle thru the cork. Then you pump air into the corked bottle. Do it to where you think it might pop if you pump anymore. Then pull the cork out and all this vapor will float in the bottle. Inhale that ? , i swear i got buzzed after 2 hits.
smh...white people.
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the person who started this will die soon
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Some white boy told me that him and his boy put a beer ? in they ass NO ? and poured vodka in it. Said it was an intense ? . White peeps do the darnedest thangs lol
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i found out people in Washington smoke pills...
smh saw that ? and thawt "now THAT is some ? head ? rite there" -
Yupp I know cats who freebase Oxy pills
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? is smoking liquor, but cannabis is still illegal?????
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Lmao @ "unbelievably dangerous"...
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Another one on the list of "stupid ? white people do"
I bet some punk chemistry student came up with this idea.
Look at the first pic.
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MzGrahamBitches wrote: »Yeah this was on the news the other day..? is dangerous, buuuut it might help with that beer gut.
let us know how it goes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHqaraCJZyU
