The answer, by the way, is vanilla extract, hand sanitizer, mouthwash, and brake fluid. All containing enough alcohol to make them irresistible to addicts.Common household products alcohol addicts are abusing... can you guess what they are? We'll tell you at 6 @ktva pic.twitter.com/tj2oQUQFT2— Daniella Rivera (@RiveraDanie) September 14, 2017
Courtesy of KTVA:
While alcohol abuse in Alaska is nothing new, desperation among addicts is becoming more visible inside Anchorage grocery stores. When users can no longer legally buy liquor, they turn to common household products, forcing many businesses to move them behind the counter, in some cases storing them under lock and key.
Last month, while filming an unrelated story, a KTVA news crew watched a man near Bean’s Café down two small bottles of liquid, throw them on the ground, and ride away on a bike while the camera was rolling. The bottles on the ground, now empty, once held vanilla extract.
Krystal Taddicken, who lives at the Brother Francis Shelter, told KTVA a the time, vanilla extract is an easy way for an addict to get drunk if they can’t buy alcohol.
“It shows that it’s 35 percent minimum of alcohol, it’s one of the highest alcohol there is,” she told KTVA, picking the bottle up off the ground and pointing to the ingredients listed on the back.
It’s not just vanilla extract, addicts are using anything that contains alcohol to get drunk, including mouth wash, hand sanitizer and according to the Anchorage Fire Department, brake fluid.
Alcoholism has been a problem in this state, I believe even before we became a state.
My family is essentially wall to wall alcoholics, with only a few nonconformists like my daughter and I standing out from the herd.
And it is much worse among the homeless community.
All of my life I have seen drunks passed out in the woods and along bike paths laying next to bottles of everything from store bought booze to cleaning products that they have huffed or ingested.
I once saw a homeless guy spraying what looked like a disinfectant of some kind into a clear bag and then drinking the contents.
It is hard to imagine how that could get any worse.
But if it has that is very troubling indeed.
Concerning alcoholism, has Track Palin finally cleaned up his act??
ReplyDeleteTrack may be under the same treatment as Dakota Meyer. He says it works for PTSD and vets. Dakota is selling them or works for the company and it has helped him to stop drinking. Except for wine. It helps him sleep and the suicidal tendencies. It is easy to use, a small machine you put on your ears and get a current.
DeleteI hope Track is doing well.
What The 2 Deadliest Mass Shootings This Year Have In Common
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/plano-texas-mass-shooting_us_59b7e02ce4b09be416581d2b?6gi
BRAKE FLUID? I was working on my car earlier this year, and I wanted to drain the master cylinder to put fresh fluid in.
ReplyDeleteI siphoned the contents into a jar, but got a tiny bit in my mouth, and it was just horrible!
I can't imagine anyone drinking it, and it's poisonous, you can get renal failure from it
http://www.poison.org/articles/2016-sep/brake-fluid
at least vanilla is food.
DeleteIt is very sad. Humans have used plants to heal pain and alter state since the beginning of time, but now it is humans addicted to relief of mental and physical pain. The pain is coming in all forms today. Who knows until you talk to one that you may understand their pain. Today we also have extraordinary pains in society and it is everywhere in every state and region. It does not discriminate between rich or poor, gender, color, age nor education level. Addiction to anything is harmful to your health. Lots of man made pain, sadness, gloom, doom and grief out there. Remedy? Education? Community Health Centers? A more positive healthy society? A brighter future for all? Hope?
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DeleteMedicinal plants freak wingnuts out to no end. Especially the ones that relieve pain and make people feel good.
DeleteAnd ones the pharmacudical companies can't copy & mass produce to sell @ high price!
Delete.... vanilla extract, hand sanitizer, mouthwash, and brake fluid. ....
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You would have to have a real problem to use vanilla extract these days. The last bottle of pure vanilla extract that I bought at Sam's Club cost 18.85 for 8 ounces.
ReplyDeleteYou can get the fake stuff for 69 cents at target, 8 oz 35% alcohol.
Delete'...the night before his death he was sticking to "just college drugs — cocaine, weed, alcohol, Xanax sometimes."'
ReplyDeleteDrugs are too normal, accepted and common place. Who knows the difference between a recreational user and an addict that is just starting out? If you die from alcohol or cocaine it is not an opiod crisis or emergency but you are just as dead. President Trump has dropped the ball on his opiod emergency, he has nothing for other drugs, addiction. His own brother died an alcoholic. Too bad they can't expand the emergency to all substance abuse. Especially focus on the part pharmaceuticals and doctors play, since they are the number one menacing dealers today.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/eric-bolling-jr-was-on-cocaine-night-before-death-friend/
OT Cause and Effect? Vietnam-Afganistan- Iraq>
ReplyDelete"Entertain – but don’t inform"
Living room war$”> “Zippo mission$,”
"In this sense, media coverage contributed to the flow of information that’s vital to any functioning democracy, and pushed Americans to either support or oppose U.S. involvement in the conflict."
"LBJ>“You know what you did to ME last night?” "
“You shat on the American flag.”
"One solution involved imposing strict control over the movements of journalists. "CNN broadcast live footage of coalition forces bombing Baghdad in 1991.
Entertain – but don’t inform."NOW>"The war would become localized through human interest stories, told by “embedded reporters” attached to units."
"It wasn’t even possible to see pictures of returning body containers until the Obama administration reversed the policy in 2009."Going to war is arguably one of the most important decisions a country can make; for this reason, access to the true sacrifices, costs and horrors should not be restricted."
https://theconversation.com/how-the-pentagon-tried-to-cure-america-of-its-vietnam-syndrome-83682
Not to hijack this thread, but Native Americans in South Dakota have a yooge alcohol problem- called Whiteclay, Nebraska. Read more- http://battleforwhiteclay.org/?page_id=140
ReplyDeleteBeer sales have dropped recently from a peak of 4.5 millions 12 oz cans per year to a dry reservation.
" despite longstanding complaints of police failure to protect indigenous women equally."
Deletehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/30/canada-first-nations-indigenous-women-inquiry
What's interesting about indigenous peoples and alcoholism is the they are not all vulnerable and it's more a genetic inability to metabolize alcohol and its toxic components rather than a preponderance towards addiction. Some, though their inherited genetic code, simply do not produce the enzymes that allow them to safely metabolize alcohol.
DeletePrior to our knowledge of sterilizing drinking water by boiling, cultures would ferment beverages to make them potable and everyone, from small children to adults, drank alcohol daily, anything from "small beer", a weak fermented beverage, to stronger distilled beverages.
Over time, those with genetic risk factors would sicken and often succumb to their condition and had fewer or no offspring, thus the population of those who could not safely consume alcohol was diminished greatly or completely eradicated.
This took millennia but left many African, White European, and other cultures that historically drank alcohol, with a majority of members who are able to properly metabolize alcohol because survival and breeding was severely hindered in those who could not, and it's not as if you could avoid alcohol, you had to drink it or die from waterborne diseases.
I think genetic testing would go a long way to identifying those in indigenous cultures who are particularly at risk from alcohol poisoning and target them first for education and avoidance. At least we could start there and then figure out a long term plan, although in time their cultures will also see diminishing rates of this genetic condition, just as others did, as those who cannot metabolize alcohol will not thrive and will not have healthy children, if they reproduce at all.
That we are aware of it now, through genetic testing, gives us a chance to combat it rather than just letting natural selection be the sole determining factor.
yes,i learned is social work that Native Americans have a terrible time with alcohol-that the reservations have a real problem. and we did it to them.
DeleteEuropians had centuries of alcohol use therefore their livers are more able to process it. When they came here the alcohol the natives obtained was poison to them due to their immature livers not being able to process the alcohol.
DeleteYeah I don't recall pics with any indigenous people with booze in their hands. Spears.
DeleteWhite man civilized my ass.
Next time, go with first instinct. Shrug.
Let's try and get more Democrats elected so the people who need help can have it available to them. With the Republicans in power, these people are all "throw-away" statistics and not human beings. Donald Trump will NEVER help others unless there is something in it for him.
ReplyDeleteNearly every family I know can understand, because they have a close relative with a history of drug or alcohol addiction. Many times, mental illness goes hand-in-hand with those addictions.
i'm the only one in my family who never drank or smoked. i'm such an oddball-preferring books! the though of getting drunk in a bar full of cigarette smoke and music so loud it hurts and drunks all over makes my skin crawl!
DeleteAll those night time cold medicines too.
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Nyquil, Robitussin
Formula 44 D is 20% alcohol.
not to forget zzzzzzzquil, the stuff packs a real wallop.
ReplyDeletehttp://lnr.politicususa.com/new-studies-suggest-alcoholism-major-public-health-crisis-2407/
ReplyDelete"What they found was shocking: alcohol use was up 11 percent overall, and those who engaged in high-risk drinking rose from 20.2 million people to nearly 30 million."
"“Heavy drinking was up 65 percent among those aged 65 and older, 62 percent among black Americans, and 58 percent among women,”“For Alcohol Use Disorder, people aged 45 to 64 saw an 82 percent increase, while those 65 and older a 107 percent increase. Among women and black Americans, Alcohol Use Disorder increased 84 percent and 93 percent, respectively. Notable increases were also seen among those with lower incomes and lower education levels.” the study’s findings paint a worrisome picture for the future. Alcohol consumption is tied to a slew of chronic medical problems, including cancer, stroke, heart disease, cirrhosis of the liver, diabetes, a number of psychiatric problems, and higher risk of death."
Listerine mouthwash is another of the favorites if you can imagine that. Gag.
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