'Chugging' hand sanitizer

Well, I don't personally put much stock in the "jenkem" rumors (see Dominic Holden's analysis), but then I see stories about "chugging" hand sanitizer, and it makes me wonder...

Tufts-New England Medical Center has taken measures to keep emergency room patients from chugging hand sanitizer in order to get drunk or injure themselves. Corresponding with the Annals of Emergency Medicine this month, Scott Weiner said that the changes came after a 27-year-old man poisoned himself by drinking a 15-ounce container of Cal Stat antiseptic hand rub -- twice during a two month period....

Since the liquid is mostly isopropanol, not drinking alcohol, he quickly became quite ill. Doctors tried unsuccessfully to revive him with naloxone, a drug used to treat opiate overdoses. As the situation worsened, his kidneys stopped working and he had trouble breathing. Physicians intubated him and moved him to an intensive care unit. At that time, his girlfriend indicated that her beau has a history of drinking rubbing alcohol. Blood tests showed that she wasn't kidding.

Eeep. I can see doing this once (okay, maybe I can't), but this guy repeated the exact same stunt two months later.

Okay, I admit I haven't tried it, so maybe I shouldn't be so judgmental. Especially when it comes in yummy aloe flavor...