This is actually true! Although apparently the subjective effects from people who've tried it are that it is less pleasant, lasts far longer, and has an awful, awful hangover. Most alcohols can be drank to produce a drunken state, although it's not generally advised
There was a guy who came to my school to give us a speech about the dangers of addiction. He was a former alcoholic and he said that when bars or liquor stores wouldn’t serve him he would go to a pharmacy and buy rubbing alcohol to drink. He said that he would immediatley throw it up and it would burn like nothing else, but he kept doing it. He had a horribly scratchy voice that still gives me chills.
Well former alcoholic who did the same. I’d only take like half an inch worth whenever I’d run out of booze at home. God I want to vomit just thinking about it 😭so glad I’m not doing that anymore
@@brodycallender7509 waiting for tiktok to make another dumbass trend to get people killed. It honestly might even be a good thing, getting rid of people actually that fucking stupid is pretty helpful for the world
I started drinking alcohol since my teenage, spent my whole life fighting alcohol addiction. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Got diagnosed with cptsd. Alcohol addiction actually destroyed my life. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
I love hearing great life changing stories like this. I want to become a mycologist because honestly mushrooms are the best form of medicine (most especially the psychedelic ones) There are so many people today used magic mushrooms to ween off of SSRI medication- its amazing! Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death buddy, lets be honest here.
Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Australia don't know much about these. I'm so glad they helped you. I can't wait to get them too. Really need a reliable source 🙏
YES sure of mycologist Pedroshrooms. I have the same experience with anxiety, addiction. Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
One of my co workers died by drinking rubbing alcohol. He was an alcoholic trying to kick his bad habit and his family removed all the alcohol from the house. They found him unresponsive in the morning. R.I.P. Brad.
Tried it once. 1. It smells horribly. 2. Had the worst hangover ever. 3. It does get you drunk way faster than usual alcohol. You can literally feel getting drunk. 4. It burns your stomach. You can feel you stomach upset even the next day.
I drank a shot of 91% rubbing alcohol because I took Ambien (it makes you do stupid stuff). No hangover, but every exhalation was like breathing nail polish remover (acetone) ALL DAY!! It was horrendous.
Ahhh classic Ambien shenanigans😂 that shit was so fun when I was in high school lolol. I would snort it and drink a little and it would be a gooood night lol
@Normal John same here 🤣🤣 snorting it used to take it to a whole other level to the point of hallucinating and changing my mindset and opinions of things. Lord those were crazy times. 🤪
@@ducci6 the reason I started was because my dad found out I was smoking weed and starting testing me-- nonbenzos (aka ambien) are not on a 7-panel test😂 my parents both had scripts too. The amount of nights I would slide on my stomach to get to my moms purse at night was unreal😂😂😂😭
I remember as a child my uncle used to buy bottles of rubbing alcohol and drink them like water. I’m a recovering alcoholic now and I’m thankful I never got to that point ever.
Sober alcoholic here too, but I have downed insanely many bottles of hand sanitizer. Once I got used to the taste, I saw no problems with it. Keep up the good work on that recovering path! 👍
As a Chemist I can say that this is a great 30,000 ft overview. While not wrong there is a WHOLE LOT missing. First of all Ethanol is distilled from edible grains like corn and barley where as Isopropyl alcohol is distilled from propylene and thus is a petrochemical. The easiest way to understand is ... Edible grain vs petroleum ....
@@falkwulf3842 But - at least here in Sweden - there's just a tiny percentage of isopropanol, and then the companies try to scare off people from drinking it by adding a lot of Bitrex. Once there came out a batch with technical alcohol containing Methanol, and it was swiftly taken off the shelves and warned about, because the brand is known to be drinked by alcoholics. It was a pretty human and wholesome happening, I think. Do other countries really use Methanol in their technical alcohols? That's just evil!
@@falkwulf3842 for someone who says that this video is missing nuance to say that isopropanol==petroleum is quite ironic. What you're saying boils down to "one is more natural and thus better" which as a chemist you should know is a bad statement. We can derive absolutely safe products from extremely dangerous materials. Saying that ethanol is inherently better because it's made from edible grain is like saying ozone is safe since it's made from made from oxygen.
I’ve drank hand sanitizer before with no issues. Added a few salt packets to it & strained out the gel layer it formed on top and although bitter, it got me wasted. Needless to say I never did it again.
I had a teenage guy with me at my job for a week as part of the schools work experience programs, he told me he resorted to mixing hand sanitizer 50/50 with milk to get drunk with his friends.
I have a large stockpile of booze, and an even larger stockpile of industrial solvents because I do metalwork. The chances of me drinking the solvents was zero, but after I watching this video I feel validated. Thank you for explaining why drinking my bottles of acetone and biofuel was a bad idea.
JC was found to be suffering from ketoacidosis, due Acetol build up in blood. Keto, meaning to put Acid, meaning sour And, -Osis meaning state To put on sour state, it means that JC's body was becoming acidic. But body has natural buffer towards acidication, so what can cause this to fail? Lets take a look what is happening in JC's body.
Im 15 and the thought randomly hit me. Never drank any alcohol before (and dont intend to) but i just randomly thought of it and this video was super informative and helpful. Thank you.
Note, the "ethanol with other stuff added" is still something you can buy. In the US, at least, it is typically sold as "denatured alcohol". In other places it goes by different names, such as "methylated spirits". There are lots of different formulations, and in many cases methanol is no longer added, but just various other compounds to make it extremely bad tasting, bad smelling, induce vomiting, etc, instead (though there are still some variations that contain methanol too).
The part about methanol not being added anymore is far from true. Look at the material safety data sheets (MSDS) to get a list of the ingredients, and their approximate percentages. For example, Klean Strip green is about 3-7% methanol. Jasco has about 50-55%. The normal Klean Strip stuff is about 40-60%. Crown has between 60-75% methanol. The other common additives are methyl isobutyl ketone (4-methylpentan-2-one), occasionally acetone, and isopropanol. I think one of them also contains a few percent ethyl acetate. Denatonium benzoate is probably added to a lot of these, but it’s usually not listed in the MSDS. So, at least where I live most brands contain a significant quantity of methanol. The brands I listed are also some of the most common ones in the US as far as I know. I used to have to dig through these things to find one that was mostly ethanol for making ethyl esters until my local scientific supply store started selling absolute anhydrous ethanol.
@@bojackhorselad The use of benzene in commercial products has largely been discontinued in most countries due to its carcinogenicity (IARC group I carcinogen: causes leukemia). Nowadays the common denaturing agents are methanol, methyl isobutyl ketone, and acetone. Sometimes methyl ethyl ketone, ethyl acetate, and isopropanol are used.
"JC" is a thirty year old man, presenting to the emergency room with hyperisopropylemia. Hyper meaning high, isopropyl being rubbing alcohol, and emia meaning presence in blood. High isopropyl alcohol presence in blood.
Wait, "J.C.", 30 years old... "What's wrong with you, young man?" "Peter told me it would've been safe to turn water into rubbing alcohol, so i made a few amphoras of it and we drank"
Not really. Let's say you're a chemical manufacturer who wants to supply pure ethanol as a solvent (which you can buy at a hardware store - I have a container now at home - it's called _denatured_ alcohol). Well, since the federal gov't taxes drinking alcohol, that makes the price of any ethanol more expensive, even if it's not planned to be used for drinking. So to sell it cheap, the industry "denatures" the alcohol - making it unsafe to drink, therefore no alcohol tax on it. Also, the chemical industry does not want to sell products that what I would call "dual use" - both used for human consumption _and_ regular chemical use, just too many regulatory and liability problems with doing that.
@@cutthroat399 No, you guys don't get it. If the same alcohol is used for drinks as for medical rubbing alcohol, either drinks become dirt cheap or medical alcohol becomes very expensive. Going towards either side has bad consequences. Making rubbing alcohol dirt cheap but inedible completely solves this problem. The taxes are a big benefit, yes, and probably played a role in the decision, but this has far better consequences than simply increasing tax revenue on ethanol.
I sometimes use it as a solvent. You can tell it's definitely something you don't want to drink. The fumes are quite potent, proper ventilation is required. Plus, it'll dry out your skin, but not permanently.
I remember being taught in middle school that drinking the rubbing alcohol would make you go blind.I have never ever ever thought about drinking it ever.
i have a feeling it was possibly learned from the past rubbing alcohol hence why it was in "school" so im guessing it was a history lesson about taxes about alcohol and why is regular rubbing alcohol cheaper then the ingestible counterpart @PumaPantalones
There is Manny typen of rubbing alcohol here in Sweden that can be drunk since it’s 85% ethanol with a minuscule amount of isopropyl alcohol as a denaturing agent. Tastes bad, but when I was broke as a homeless alcoholic it was easy to enter bathrooms in hospitals to get a bottle to drink so I wouldn’t get delirious from the withdrawals.
@@savagesarethebest7251 I don’t know if that is true. However as long as you have more ethanol than isopropyl alcohol it’s less toxic. The liver processes regular ethanol before isopropyl alcohol. So if consumed in the way I did you would piss out the isopropyl alcohol before the liver could try to break it down, and thank got for that! Why? Well isopropyl alcohol is turned into acetone in the body. Please don’t try this.. Get help before you end of in this situation!
In Poland, we have denatured alcohol sold in stores (aka _dykta_, it's used as a solvent, fuel etc.). It is blue and smells pretty strong, since it's contaminated 92% alcohol. It is not considered an alcoholic beverage and it's cheaper than high proof alcohol. Because of that it is a very popular product among homeless alcoholics. They filter it out through bread to remove the color and drink it. This product used to contain actual toxic substances like methanol, but because people actually drank it, most companies stopped adding those, to "minimize" the risk of deadly poisoning among alcoholics. But still, by the year 2022, the people get poisoned on ocassion. Correction: it is more like bluish-purple colour
Thats smart and considerate. Idk why purposely make something poisonous for the sake of money. They should just make it extremely bitter. Thats why you don't see people or underage teens drinking cooking wine or bitters because they taste horrendous and if it comes to the point where they resort to that then they shouldn't die because of it.
@@ihswap Maybe no one thought in the first place that anyone will drink it, but I doubt it (people used to drink way weirder stuff, like cologne). There's a joke in our culture which goes like this: a bum walks into a store and asks: "do you have denatured alcohol?" and the shopkeeper says: "no, we don't have" and then bum asks: "how about a different kind of wine?". Venedikt Vasilyevich Yerofeyev once wrote: "In Russia, it's unknown why no one knows how Pushkin died, but everyone knows how to purify French polish"
@@ihswap because if you just add denatonium benzoate, people can easily distil it, and get pure ethanol. if you add methanol, you complicate the process a bit, as these two have similar boiling points, and distilling it isnt as trivial.
Once, my friend gave me a shot of hand sanitizer, telling me it was a vodka. It basically poisoned me and I spent the whole day throwing up. I couldn’t stop shaking and my whole body felt dried up.
I stole a bottle of this when I was locked up as a kid. We watered it half way, figured it was 35% now and we took like 6 shots each. I got so messed up and puked my guts out and had the worst headache I have ever had, and the backs of my eyes hurt so bad.
As I live in a post-Soviet country, we have a big problem with alcoholism. People drink everything containing ethanol. House-brewed alcohol, hawthorn tincture, medical-purpose ethanol, sanitizer, even eau de cologne.
I’ve drank it before it’s called the “Holy water” it’s half parts rubbing alcohol and half parts water, you get drunk fast but wake up with the worst hangover
Same here, it was the worst night of my life after that. I actually watched this video because I'm paranoid I did permanent damage to myself lol. Though pretty sure I'm only slow now bc I smoke too much pot. Also have no idea how I'm alive
@@rogerhargreaves2272 and it probably still tasted like straight rubbing alcohol😭 the nastiest shit I've ever tasted. And gave me a pretty sore throat for a few days..
@@creatureofthenight852 - yea, it tasted horrible, I was wrenching up for days. Even now, ten months after, if I smell rubbing alcohol it makes me want to throw up. Meh, never again. It’s denatured with something disgusting 🤮. We’re both here to tell the tale though. Greetings from Wales U.K. 🏴😀
@@xsanguine 4 ounces. That's like 8 ounces in boozes alc, plus I was new to alcohol. Took a few hours for everything to stop spinning the next morning.
I'll never forget the time I was at the hospital for a run of some medication, and while I was sitting around waiting, I saw a dude grab a bottle of hand sanitizer and proceed to chug it. I just thought damn, he sure is dedicated to his craft.
I swallowed a large gulp of rubbing alcohol by mistake thinking it was my other drink. I immediately lost everything on my stomach, and continued to throw up for ten to fifteen minutes afterward. It was a horrible experience!
The biggest flaw here is that rubbing alcohol was non existent in stores during the pandemic. Really hard to obtain. Whereas, drinking alcohol sales boomed
I knew a guy who was extremely addicted to drugs and alcohol and sometimes he would drink isopropyl alcohol or even just acetone straight which is pretty insane, he said it felt like alcohol but more impairing, he said there was more muscle relaxant qualities with these two and he liked them more than ethanol. he also said there was more intense side effects, vomiting was super common, his breath would smell like acetone for the entire next day after drinking it and that hed get a lot of stomach pains. i havent spoken to him in a while but i hope hes doing okay.
@Sciencian he ended up overdosing on fentanyl, flubromazolam and methamphetamine a year ago, i just found out by one of his close friends not long after this post. he was a good dude he just had major drug problems, i will miss him.
@Ithecastic he didnt overdose on acetone, as far as acetone goes, there is not much dosing information but we do know the LD50 (lethal dose), when he was doing it he always drank less than the lethal dose. the main reason acetone is toxic is because of how potent it is as a CNS depressant, it has a very high affinity towards gaba receptors like ethanol, GHB etc, so high doses have the potential to kill you. when he overdosed it wasnt acetone, he was on a mixture of fentanyl, flubromazolam which is a very potent research chemical benzodiazapine much stronger than xanax and other pharma benzos and methamphetamine, the cause of death was respiratory depression most likely from the fentanyl and flubromazolam which he both consumed very large amounts of.
I somehow remember from college organic chemistry that all alcohols are toxic and that being drunk is actually mild poisoning. BTW. the term "Alcohol" refers to many organic compounds having the -OH hydroxyl group in its molecular structure.
Here in Italy we use mostly denatured alcohol for non drinking use. It smells strong and has a vivid pink color, you cannot mistake it for simply ethanol
My cousin rents a room from a severe alcoholic that has such extreme addiction, during the Covid lockdown, she drank rubbing alcohol, hand sanitizer, her own rotten fruit juice wine stuff, nail polish remover, and hair spray trying to get over the detox pains. She didn’t have a car and my cousin was trying to save her by not taking her to the gas station to get beer or anything but after a week of her drinking anything she could get her hands on, he finally just started buying her beer from any place that was open. Alcoholics will go to insane lengths to get drunk. 😢
Bruh, people died not getting their alcohol fix during lockdowns. That's not a good way to go, should've gotten her to the hospital where they'd give her benzos to take the edge off. Otherwise they can literally have seizures and die.
That one time I was cleaning my cpu and left the iso next to my water bottle then got up in the middle of the night and took a swig of the wrong bottle...
This doesn't apply in my country. Here rubbing alcohol is ethanol as well, just with added menthol. Needless to say I tried it and now my favorite liquor store is the pharmacy.
I actually drank an unknown amount of diluted 99% isopropanol after a few beers. I was blackout drunk pretty much instantly, the next day I could barely leave my bed, horrible hangover and still feeling drunk. Not so fun fact: Acetone not only gets excreted through urine but also your lungs. I was breathing acetone for 2 days while being nauseas af. Wouldn't recommend
I almost did this unintentionally, because I had a memory lapse and thought the rubbing alcohol bottle was the mouthwash. My mom asked me what I was doing and I took a second look at the bottle realizing how close I was lmao.
I worked with a guy on a Farm. Every day he drank the isopropyl alcohol that was meant to clean wounds on the cattle. And you can imagine he did not look healthy.
Yeah, because if they stopped the sales of alcohol, the hospitals would be even more crowded than they already are from people going through alcohol withdrawal.
I had a great uncle who used to take rubbing alcohol, pour it into a loaf of bread, then drink whatever came out the other side. That was his breakfast beverage of choice. He did this for decades, until he died of cancer in his early 40's.
I'm a medic and I really need to commend you for your good presentation of this medical/chemistry topic. I really haven't seen anybody explain this in more understandable terms for laypeople while still remaining accurate.
As a Chemist I agree that this was a fair 30,000 ft overview but there is a far simpler way to explain it. Ethanol = Edible grains like Corn, Barley, Wheat. Isopropyl = propylene a chemical obtained from petroleum and natural gas..
Ironic that a treatment for methyl alcohol (methanol) poisoning is ethanol, since the latter is a better competitive agonist for alcohol dehydrogenase (which prevents the metabolism of methanol).
I've drank over a litre of the "rubbing" alcohol that is commonly used here in Sweden, there are a few different variants, but they mostly contain pure ethanol and some additives. Some (most?) contains bittrex and the one that have in front of me now does have that (unfortunately), it says it contains 680g/ml ethanol which is on the low side and 131g/kg of propan-2-ol which is a bit much but I would have drank it if not for the foul taste
Hey Frank, Sweden is a beautiful country. My wife has friends there. We live in Japan and here I found Ethanol IP for Disinfection. I use it for my nutritional IV. Is what I have the same thing as what you wrote about? I have been looking for hydrogen peroxide but can't find it here. Thank you for the kind reply. 😊
In a lot of countries we still use ethanol as a disinfectant. We just add a denaturant. This usually is a compound that helps kill more bacteria. It will also give you nasty diarrhea and bypass the alcohol drink tax.
When I was 14 I tried to unalive by drinking this.. I smelt like it for several days after AND I could still taste it. Sometimes I still can’t stand the smell or anything that smells similar such as hand sanitizer and certain mouth washes… Also can only use certain toothpastes because some for some reason make me think of it. It was extremely disgusting and I puked my guts out.
I remember as a kid I sat in the restroom tempting to drink it just cause I was curious how it would taste. No body ever told me that I would die or that it was harmful (label was torn off the bottle & I was like 5-7 of age). And some reason I didn’t ended up drinking it. Wondered what changed my mind?
You wouldn’t have been able to get it down, especially at 6 years old. It burns like a mother when not diluted. We had dudes in the military drinking it (in the form of hand sanitizer mixed with salt to pull out the gel), and you have to be very determined and absolutely desperate. Some of them had chemical burns in their mouths and esophagus, as well as gastrointestinal bleeding because they drank it without diluting it. Some of the “smart” ones would mix it with beverage base powder (like the lemonade powder packets you put into a bottle of water) and water. Their bodies the next day would reek, just emanating the smell of sweet nail polish remover (acetone). Nothing like being in formation next to dudes that smell like that and body odor in 100 degree summer heat. Makes my stomach turn just thinking about it.
I would say the smell, but with how many stories there are of young children drinking whole bottles of poison yet not wanting to eat carrots, I'd say you just got very lucky and realized at the last second "Nah, that's dumb."
My favorite piece of real life lore is that alcohol is way overpriced for absolutely no reason, and the only reason you can't drink the cheap rubbing alcohol from the dollar store is because they put a chemical in it specifically so you can't drink it.
Why are we ignoring the fact that two of his patrons are named "Kurzgesagt Fan" and "Yare Yare Daze" 😂 Regardless, top notch video, can't wait to see this channel blow up soon!
When my older sister was a little less than two, she got into a bottle of rubbing alcohol while thinking it was water. She took a couple swallows before she started throwing up, alerting my mom, who was in university at the time and doing homework. Mom called poison control, but by the time they got there, my sister had thrown up everything she ingested. It’s a somewhat funny story now, especially considering how book- and street-smart my sister is nowadays.
I tried this once. It burns your throat and your stomach and you’ll taste it when you burp for the next 3 days. Probably drank about 1 1/2 shots of it. I didn’t go blind or have alcohol poisoning but it is more potent than normal ethanol alcohol, and is more likely to damage your esophagus and stomach and cause cancer.
Another reason not to drink isopropyl alcohol is that there can be other ingredients in it besides it and water. These aren't disclosed in the bottle labeling as they don't have to be.
That methanol situation in prohibition is why people think you can go blind from bad moonshine. Moonshine made without added solvents cant make you go blind, and in fact well made moonshine will give you less of a hangover than commercial stuff.
I didn't mean any attitude whatsoever, I thought we were in agreeance. I'm a chemist and a distiller so I know what you meant by heads and tails. But methanol doesn't actually come out in the foreshots because the molecule has a higher affinity for water than ethanol, and therefore drags its feet about evaporating. I guess ethanol is a solvent but I meant added solvents like methanol to stretch out the volume of product or poison whoever may drink it.
I once got "drunk" from inhaling it, i was working on fixing a problem on a motherboard and back then was doing it as a hobby, so finding a faulty SMD on a motherboard required lots of isopropanol, cheaper than a FLIR camera for finding the damn SMD that's shorted. It's also great for cleaning flux after soldering. Long story short, i had a raging headache and some dizziness because i've sat right above it the whole time in a poorly ventilated room...
I had about half an ounce to an ounce of isopropyl alcohol once. It didn’t make me feel drunk as much as I just couldn’t keep my head up above my desk. I felt no high, but I was so fatigued. It definitely has the tiring effects of ethanol, but isn’t recreational.
I used (during the pandemic) and continue to use grain alcohol for disinfecting. It's $15 for a bottle that lasts me weeks. 96% alcohol and evaporates super fast because it has way less water. I use it on my hands and at work to clean my desk, mouse, and keyboard.
First head contains most of the methanol, sometimes also some ethyl acetate. It should never be drunk. The oily afterrun is called fusel oil. It's a mixture of higher alcohols including isopropanol. It smells bad (like unwashed feet + alcohol) and can make you really drunk, but produces the vilest of hangovers. The poorest, most degenerated drunks from 19th century used to drink fusel oil when they had nothing else.
I once accidentally drank a big gulp of it (because someone in my household put it in a water bottle, but it was labeled in permanent marker and it was under the sink, but me being 9-10 years old I didn't pay attention to either), spit it out immediately, fast forward to 2021 and at a house party I drink a cup of red wine thinking it was coca cola, as soon as that happened and I felt the taste and smell and all that stuff in my mouth, it immediately sent me back to the rubbing alcohol incident and just how similar the two felt, I though still instinctively spit out the red wine lol
At the start of the pandemic I couldn’t find isopropyl alcohol for sale. I went to the liquor store and bought a 1.75-liter bottle of the cheapest maximum-proof grain alcohol (it’s only 153 proof here in Florida) I could easily get. Expensive, but I wanted to have some sort of sanitizer. In a few weeks, isopropanol started showing up again. Some hand sanitizer I bought was probably ethanol based because it smelled of whiskey! When the pandemic gradually died down I started drinking the 153-proof booze, using it to spike diet soft drinks. Took a while to finish.
We had a lady in the ER who came in for ETOH (alcohol) overdose. She kept shaving a rise in her blood alcohol level and was markedly more drunk than when she was admitted. We finally caught her mixing the gel hand sanitizer with salt, separating the gel and turning it to a drinkable form of alcohol. Needless to say we had a new policy and education that alcoholic abuse / drunk patients were not allowed to have salt packets or gel hand sanitizers at their disposal. Alcoholics can be genius 😂
I guess its the right answer for such a short video. In a longer video studies of drinking each of the three could be discussed. Its obviously harder to dose it correctly, but also the 'highs' are slightly different (you are not getting the hoped drunken state, but another one) and the next day aftermaths are different.
I drank isopropyl alcohol back in highschool, would not recommend. The taste lasts for a week, and the headache/hangover lasts longer. Still can't stand the smell without getting triggered.
Liquor stores stayed open for the most part during lockdown. Alachol is one of the two drugs that has withdrawals that will kill you. Leaving no choice but to keep them open.
Yup. My boyfriend's dad died of withdrawal a couple years ago. He had only been an alcoholic for a few years. I know that sounds crazy but it's true.. his wife left him and he started drinking out of nowhere and it got really bad the last year of his life. The ironic part was, his old friend and his son came from out of state to do a nonchalant intervention. Because of them being there, my boyfriend's dad felt awkward and weird drinking with them visiting so he didn't. They came up on a Friday evening and he went two nights without a drink. He died of withdrawal Sunday morning. I'm not sure the exact cause of death because my boyfriend is so traumatized from it and I never asked him, but it was 100% from withdrawal. Two frickin days. It's unbelievable. I've advocated for liquor stores to stay open during the pandemic because of this. It's not a joke that people make it out to be.
I built an acetone + glowing copper wire lamp in my room. After several hours of experimentation I noticed I was very dizzy and my breath smelled vaguely fruity/solvent-like. After turning off the lamp and opening the window it took several hours before I felt normal again. Not sure if what poisoned me was acetone or ethenone
one time, i used isopropyl alcohol to “rinse my mouth” when i ran out of mouth wash and i stg my mouth burned horrifically for at least 20-30 mins after the fact. i also had a very sick stomach and i don’t even think i swallowed any
I thought it would taste minty but it was just bitter, and while it was in my mouth it felt like it was getting hotter and hotter until I spit it out. I did this to win an argument, at the end of it I won. I did plan on swallowing it but because of the heat I didn't.
0:03 Uhhhhhh.....I'd rather order through Doordash/Grubhub/etc & pay outrageous prices to get booze from a restaurant before even considering drinking rubbing alcohol!
There is a specific type of people where I live that drink that stuff. At Walmart and at the pharmacy stores they lock peroxide and rubbing alcohol up. Same with aeorsol cans. THAT'S how bad drugs abuse is where I live.
One of my roommates at Job Corps where I was studying drank hand sanitizer after they ran out of vodka. Hand sanitizer is also isopropyl alcohol. All that happened was he got drunker.
back in college when i was renting an apartment, there was this local homeless guy named john that asked people for change and i always saw him drinking listerine
Yeah I tried this. It gave me a drunk feeling like normal, but my head was hungover and in an inescapable haze for days. I *only* had two shots of 70%. I drank ethyl and not isopropyl, which is less poisonous, but I can’t imagine what would’ve happened if I drank a more significant amount.
@@jjdayoungin947 I weighed 150 and was drinking heavily every single day at the time, so big tolerance for processing the stuff, and it still messed my brain up, totally unlike normal alcohol, for a solid couple days. I definitely don’t recommend it, and good lord be careful you don’t drink the wrong type because methyl could actually make you go blind (and I think isopropyl is highly poisonous as well). The ethyl felt almost exactly like normal alcohol but I just felt extra horrible afterwards. Maybe just go buy some normal grain alcohol if you wanna drink something crazy, rubbing alcohol really ain’t it haha.
In the city where I used to live, the beverage of choice anong the unhoused was mouthwash. It is essentially just alcohol, and the cheapest option available by far. Local stores all kept it behind the counter as it was very commonly stolen. I once needed some high-proof rubbing alcohol to clean electronics. I practically had to convince the pharmacist that I was not going to drink it before he would sell it to me. I have since moved cross-country to a much smaller city. I am amazed at the lack of restrictions on what I can purchase.
I knew a kid in highschool who drank an entire bottle of rubbing alcohol thinking it would impress some girls. He was quickly taken to the hospital and had his stomach pumped. He survived but those girls never talk to him again. And he never seemed quite "right" ever since then.
One time I tried to drink a bottle of 80% (?) rubbing alcohol to kms and now I can't drink anything evergreen mint flavored without getting insanely nauseous
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What I'm getting from this is acetone is a cheap alternative to ethanol as you only need 1/3 and you get to stay drunk longer.
I do not see a downside
Heck, you get to stay drunk for the rest of your life!
F yea
This is actually true! Although apparently the subjective effects from people who've tried it are that it is less pleasant, lasts far longer, and has an awful, awful hangover. Most alcohols can be drank to produce a drunken state, although it's not generally advised
acetone tastes terrible though, smells acrid too, and as it has a relatively low boiling point (56°C) your sweat will reek off it.
There was a guy who came to my school to give us a speech about the dangers of addiction. He was a former alcoholic and he said that when bars or liquor stores wouldn’t serve him he would go to a pharmacy and buy rubbing alcohol to drink.
He said that he would immediatley throw it up and it would burn like nothing else, but he kept doing it. He had a horribly scratchy voice that still gives me chills.
Well former alcoholic who did the same. I’d only take like half an inch worth whenever I’d run out of booze at home. God I want to vomit just thinking about it 😭so glad I’m not doing that anymore
@@davidfl4 damn. Glad you stopped.
I've known a lot of people in the AlAnon/NarAnon community who drank rubbing alcohol and even hand sanitizer when they started craving. It's sad
thats the way to keep kids from doing that but instead we got this Dare shi
@@brodycallender7509 waiting for tiktok to make another dumbass trend to get people killed. It honestly might even be a good thing, getting rid of people actually that fucking stupid is pretty helpful for the world
Damnit there goes my weekend plans
Damark rivers, street name bamboo
Just drink a whole bottle of delsym
@@sfbs robotrip
Damn it. It could have been your last weekend.
I read it as Dam-Nit 😂
I started drinking alcohol since my teenage, spent my whole life fighting alcohol addiction. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Got diagnosed with cptsd. Alcohol addiction actually destroyed my life. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
I love hearing great life changing stories like this. I want to become a mycologist because honestly mushrooms are the best form of medicine (most especially the psychedelic ones) There are so many people today used magic mushrooms to ween off of SSRI medication- its amazing! Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death buddy, lets be honest here.
Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Australia don't know much about these. I'm so glad they helped you. I can't wait to get them too. Really need a reliable source 🙏
YES sure of mycologist Pedroshrooms. I have the same experience with anxiety, addiction. Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
Can I Google this dude? How can I find him
Yes he's Pedroshrooms. I know few friends who no longer suffer ptsd and anxiety with
the help of shrooms. Never had to take
shrooms after then.
One of my co workers died by drinking rubbing alcohol. He was an alcoholic trying to kick his bad habit and his family removed all the alcohol from the house. They found him unresponsive in the morning. R.I.P. Brad.
my father used to drink and i’m so glad he was never like this i’d hate to go through this, RIP brad
I know that quitting cold turkey alcohol, for alcoholics, is deadly and if death doesn't occur permanent damage does happen
Brad was a retard
@@Poodleinacan Exactly, quitting depressants cold turkey in general can lead to deadly seizures
rip. my mom told me her teacher died the same way when she was a kid.
Tried it once.
1. It smells horribly.
2. Had the worst hangover ever.
3. It does get you drunk way faster than usual alcohol. You can literally feel getting drunk.
4. It burns your stomach. You can feel you stomach upset even the next day.
that wasnt healthy man
@@KaifamGaming I know. That's why I tried it once and no more.
@@LV-426... nice
It's like Lucifer told you to consume it for drinks
@@Melodie_Info3 mhm
I drank a shot of 91% rubbing alcohol because I took Ambien (it makes you do stupid stuff). No hangover, but every exhalation was like breathing nail polish remover (acetone) ALL DAY!! It was horrendous.
Been there through the ambien nights lol
Ye my sisters grandma was literally just laying out all of her clothes and trying them on repeatedly when she had ambien. Left there house a mess
Ahhh classic Ambien shenanigans😂 that shit was so fun when I was in high school lolol. I would snort it and drink a little and it would be a gooood night lol
@Normal John same here 🤣🤣 snorting it used to take it to a whole other level to the point of hallucinating and changing my mindset and opinions of things. Lord those were crazy times. 🤪
@@ducci6 the reason I started was because my dad found out I was smoking weed and starting testing me-- nonbenzos (aka ambien) are not on a 7-panel test😂 my parents both had scripts too. The amount of nights I would slide on my stomach to get to my moms purse at night was unreal😂😂😂😭
I remember as a child my uncle used to buy bottles of rubbing alcohol and drink them like water. I’m a recovering alcoholic now and I’m thankful I never got to that point ever.
Bullshit
Sober alcoholic here too, but I have downed insanely many bottles of hand sanitizer. Once I got used to the taste, I saw no problems with it.
Keep up the good work on that recovering path! 👍
@@Foxiz it’s crazy the lengths we will go to feed the addiction. Thank you very much!! 🫶
It’s good to clean your bumbum with 😊
@@Foxiz You... You drank denatured wood alcohol? Gross.
I've never wanted to drink it, but I've always wanted to know why I couldn't! Thank you for such a great "to the point" video.
As a Chemist I can say that this is a great 30,000 ft overview. While not wrong there is a WHOLE LOT missing. First of all Ethanol is distilled from edible grains like corn and barley where as Isopropyl alcohol is distilled from propylene and thus is a petrochemical. The easiest way to understand is ... Edible grain vs petroleum ....
@@falkwulf3842 But - at least here in Sweden - there's just a tiny percentage of isopropanol, and then the companies try to scare off people from drinking it by adding a lot of Bitrex.
Once there came out a batch with technical alcohol containing Methanol, and it was swiftly taken off the shelves and warned about, because the brand is known to be drinked by alcoholics.
It was a pretty human and wholesome happening, I think.
Do other countries really use Methanol in their technical alcohols?
That's just evil!
I drank it often I
Mix it with water
And I’m here been here for years after
@@Tori-j2d Same, but didn't mix it with water
@@falkwulf3842 for someone who says that this video is missing nuance to say that isopropanol==petroleum is quite ironic. What you're saying boils down to "one is more natural and thus better" which as a chemist you should know is a bad statement. We can derive absolutely safe products from extremely dangerous materials. Saying that ethanol is inherently better because it's made from edible grain is like saying ozone is safe since it's made from made from oxygen.
I’ve drank hand sanitizer before with no issues. Added a few salt packets to it & strained out the gel layer it formed on top and although bitter, it got me wasted. Needless to say I never did it again.
What did you mix it with?
@@rifIedoIIdont do it bro 😭
I had a teenage guy with me at my job for a week as part of the schools work experience programs, he told me he resorted to mixing hand sanitizer 50/50 with milk to get drunk with his friends.
I have a large stockpile of booze, and an even larger stockpile of industrial solvents because I do metalwork. The chances of me drinking the solvents was zero, but after I watching this video I feel validated. Thank you for explaining why drinking my bottles of acetone and biofuel was a bad idea.
"was" oh no
Damn bruh 😕
Hbhgjng
I'm picking up on some sarcasm. 🤔🤣
Solvents are for huffing bro. Try it it’s harmless
What I got from this video is that if you're depressed just pee it out
You forgot the dying part😉
lmfao
And if you're manic then just shit it all out brah
Depression is stored in the balls.
Bro you made me laugh so hard 😂😂😂😂
*A man drank 1 bottle of rubbing alcohol and this is what appened to his body*
A man named JC...
@@jeffjones3145 Jesus Christ it's JC
JC was found to be suffering from ketoacidosis, due Acetol build up in blood.
Keto, meaning to put
Acid, meaning sour
And, -Osis meaning state
To put on sour state, it means that JC's body was becoming acidic. But body has natural buffer towards acidication, so what can cause this to fail? Lets take a look what is happening in JC's body.
Presebnting to the emergency room where we are now
I love this Cubbyemu crossover
Im 15 and the thought randomly hit me. Never drank any alcohol before (and dont intend to) but i just randomly thought of it and this video was super informative and helpful. Thank you.
Note, the "ethanol with other stuff added" is still something you can buy. In the US, at least, it is typically sold as "denatured alcohol". In other places it goes by different names, such as "methylated spirits". There are lots of different formulations, and in many cases methanol is no longer added, but just various other compounds to make it extremely bad tasting, bad smelling, induce vomiting, etc, instead (though there are still some variations that contain methanol too).
The part about methanol not being added anymore is far from true. Look at the material safety data sheets (MSDS) to get a list of the ingredients, and their approximate percentages. For example, Klean Strip green is about 3-7% methanol. Jasco has about 50-55%. The normal Klean Strip stuff is about 40-60%. Crown has between 60-75% methanol. The other common additives are methyl isobutyl ketone (4-methylpentan-2-one), occasionally acetone, and isopropanol. I think one of them also contains a few percent ethyl acetate. Denatonium benzoate is probably added to a lot of these, but it’s usually not listed in the MSDS. So, at least where I live most brands contain a significant quantity of methanol. The brands I listed are also some of the most common ones in the US as far as I know. I used to have to dig through these things to find one that was mostly ethanol for making ethyl esters until my local scientific supply store started selling absolute anhydrous ethanol.
usually has benzene which is hyperemetic (more vomit-inducing than ethanol)
@@bojackhorselad The use of benzene in commercial products has largely been discontinued in most countries due to its carcinogenicity (IARC group I carcinogen: causes leukemia). Nowadays the common denaturing agents are methanol, methyl isobutyl ketone, and acetone. Sometimes methyl ethyl ketone, ethyl acetate, and isopropanol are used.
"JC" is a thirty year old man, presenting to the emergency room with hyperisopropylemia. Hyper meaning high, isopropyl being rubbing alcohol, and emia meaning presence in blood. High isopropyl alcohol presence in blood.
Lol chubbyemu
Let's just make sure wang! plays "JC" and we're set.
Wait, "J.C.", 30 years old...
"What's wrong with you, young man?"
"Peter told me it would've been safe to turn water into rubbing alcohol, so i made a few amphoras of it and we drank"
So they made it dangerous to drink because they wanted more money?
Not really. Let's say you're a chemical manufacturer who wants to supply pure ethanol as a solvent (which you can buy at a hardware store - I have a container now at home - it's called _denatured_ alcohol). Well, since the federal gov't taxes drinking alcohol, that makes the price of any ethanol more expensive, even if it's not planned to be used for drinking. So to sell it cheap, the industry "denatures" the alcohol - making it unsafe to drink, therefore no alcohol tax on it. Also, the chemical industry does not want to sell products that what I would call "dual use" - both used for human consumption _and_ regular chemical use, just too many regulatory and liability problems with doing that.
@@joeylawn36111 that was one long winded yes.
@@cutthroat399 it’s a solid yes tho, makes sense too
Government is always a crook, they take our money and rarely help us
@@cutthroat399 No, you guys don't get it. If the same alcohol is used for drinks as for medical rubbing alcohol, either drinks become dirt cheap or medical alcohol becomes very expensive. Going towards either side has bad consequences. Making rubbing alcohol dirt cheap but inedible completely solves this problem. The taxes are a big benefit, yes, and probably played a role in the decision, but this has far better consequences than simply increasing tax revenue on ethanol.
Never wanted to drink either but this video got me interested in the psychoactive effects of acetone. Not a common drug of choice.
I sometimes use it as a solvent. You can tell it's definitely something you don't want to drink. The fumes are quite potent, proper ventilation is required. Plus, it'll dry out your skin, but not permanently.
@@joeylawn36111 I don't mean for me to experience.. lol. Definitely wouldn't drink and glad to hear you are being safe.
When I think of acetone I think of the main ingredient of my nail polish remover. So I'll stick to either my red wine or bourbon and diet soda
@@joeylawn36111 Im guessing it dries out your skin because it's in a high concentration. 95% ethanol will do the same.
@@pgtv14 Any solvent that can dissolve the natural oils in your skin can dry it out. 99% Isopropyl alcohol also will.
Ngl this video made drinking rubbing alcohol seem a bit safer than I initially thought.
I remember being taught in middle school that drinking the rubbing alcohol would make you go blind.I have never ever ever thought about drinking it ever.
Methanol can cause blindness, not isopropyl.
That's a lot of evers
i have a feeling it was possibly learned from the past rubbing alcohol hence why it was in "school" so im guessing it was a history lesson about taxes about alcohol and why is regular rubbing alcohol cheaper then the ingestible counterpart @PumaPantalones
Isn't that what moonshine does?
@@shortcatofficial2137if its made incorrectly yes but made right its the purest booze you’ll ever get hammered on
There is Manny typen of rubbing alcohol here in Sweden that can be drunk since it’s 85% ethanol with a minuscule amount of isopropyl alcohol as a denaturing agent.
Tastes bad, but when I was broke as a homeless alcoholic it was easy to enter bathrooms in hospitals to get a bottle to drink so I wouldn’t get delirious from the withdrawals.
I have consumed quite a few bottles myself. Apparently you can get the isopropyl out of solution with regular salt..
@@savagesarethebest7251 I don’t know if that is true. However as long as you have more ethanol than isopropyl alcohol it’s less toxic. The liver processes regular ethanol before isopropyl alcohol.
So if consumed in the way I did you would piss out the isopropyl alcohol before the liver could try to break it down, and thank got for that!
Why? Well isopropyl alcohol is turned into acetone in the body.
Please don’t try this.. Get help before you end of in this situation!
@@hitmandahl isopropyl isn't that bad for getting a buzz
In Poland, we have denatured alcohol sold in stores (aka _dykta_, it's used as a solvent, fuel etc.). It is blue and smells pretty strong, since it's contaminated 92% alcohol. It is not considered an alcoholic beverage and it's cheaper than high proof alcohol. Because of that it is a very popular product among homeless alcoholics. They filter it out through bread to remove the color and drink it. This product used to contain actual toxic substances like methanol, but because people actually drank it, most companies stopped adding those, to "minimize" the risk of deadly poisoning among alcoholics. But still, by the year 2022, the people get poisoned on ocassion.
Correction: it is more like bluish-purple colour
Thats smart and considerate. Idk why purposely make something poisonous for the sake of money. They should just make it extremely bitter. Thats why you don't see people or underage teens drinking cooking wine or bitters because they taste horrendous and if it comes to the point where they resort to that then they shouldn't die because of it.
@@ihswap Maybe no one thought in the first place that anyone will drink it, but I doubt it (people used to drink way weirder stuff, like cologne). There's a joke in our culture which goes like this: a bum walks into a store and asks: "do you have denatured alcohol?" and the shopkeeper says: "no, we don't have" and then bum asks: "how about a different kind of wine?". Venedikt Vasilyevich Yerofeyev once wrote: "In Russia, it's unknown why no one knows how Pushkin died, but everyone knows how to purify French polish"
@@ihswap because if you just add denatonium benzoate, people can easily distil it, and get pure ethanol. if you add methanol, you complicate the process a bit, as these two have similar boiling points, and distilling it isnt as trivial.
@@spotsies Yes. Exactly.
@@spotsies I doubt a random bum would have means to distill it out
Once, my friend gave me a shot of hand sanitizer, telling me it was a vodka. It basically poisoned me and I spent the whole day throwing up. I couldn’t stop shaking and my whole body felt dried up.
Nice friends you have. In a legal sense that really is attempted poisoning. You've been lucky, it could have been worse if it contained methanol.
You still friends with him?
I hope you punched him in the kidney for that.
@@lonew872 nah lol
Is he or u gay ?
I stole a bottle of this when I was locked up as a kid. We watered it half way, figured it was 35% now and we took like 6 shots each. I got so messed up and puked my guts out and had the worst headache I have ever had, and the backs of my eyes hurt so bad.
As I live in a post-Soviet country, we have a big problem with alcoholism. People drink everything containing ethanol.
House-brewed alcohol, hawthorn tincture, medical-purpose ethanol, sanitizer, even eau de cologne.
this channel is incredible. gonna be big one day. by end of year i’m guessing u got at least 1.5M.
that aged like milk, unforrtunately
@@feliox_ lol
I wish. its my favorite science channel by far, with chubbyemu second.
I’ve drank it before it’s called the “Holy water” it’s half parts rubbing alcohol and half parts water, you get drunk fast but wake up with the worst hangover
We're a different breed😭 I cant even stand the smell anymore but somehow I did it when I was younger
Same here, it was the worst night of my life after that. I actually watched this video because I'm paranoid I did permanent damage to myself lol. Though pretty sure I'm only slow now bc I smoke too much pot. Also have no idea how I'm alive
I’ve drunk it with Coca-Cola, believe me, I was so sick I’ve not drunk any form of alcohol since.
@@rogerhargreaves2272 and it probably still tasted like straight rubbing alcohol😭 the nastiest shit I've ever tasted. And gave me a pretty sore throat for a few days..
@@creatureofthenight852 - yea, it tasted horrible, I was wrenching up for days. Even now, ten months after, if I smell rubbing alcohol it makes me want to throw up. Meh, never again. It’s denatured with something disgusting 🤮. We’re both here to tell the tale though. Greetings from Wales U.K. 🏴😀
Bathroom, at 16 it had me in the bathroom, couldn't throw up, it all went out the other end. Went from early drunk to sobriety over night.
How much did you hsvr
@@xsanguine 4 ounces. That's like 8 ounces in boozes alc, plus I was new to alcohol. Took a few hours for everything to stop spinning the next morning.
I'll never forget the time I was at the hospital for a run of some medication, and while I was sitting around waiting, I saw a dude grab a bottle of hand sanitizer and proceed to chug it. I just thought damn, he sure is dedicated to his craft.
I swallowed a large gulp of rubbing alcohol by mistake thinking it was my other drink. I immediately lost everything on my stomach, and
continued to throw up for ten to fifteen minutes afterward. It was a horrible experience!
God damn it, I was just about to make myself a cocktail with soda and rubbing alcohol....
same 😕
Consider your life saved!
I will make it anyways
Sounds fun
What kind of pansy needs a chaser for their rubbing alcohol!?
i mean you still can, just use 1/3 of what you would normaly. and be prepared for the consequences.
The biggest flaw here is that rubbing alcohol was non existent in stores during the pandemic. Really hard to obtain. Whereas, drinking alcohol sales boomed
I knew a guy who was extremely addicted to drugs and alcohol and sometimes he would drink isopropyl alcohol or even just acetone straight which is pretty insane, he said it felt like alcohol but more impairing, he said there was more muscle relaxant qualities with these two and he liked them more than ethanol. he also said there was more intense side effects, vomiting was super common, his breath would smell like acetone for the entire next day after drinking it and that hed get a lot of stomach pains. i havent spoken to him in a while but i hope hes doing okay.
He is pretty much dead, sadly
@Sciencian he ended up overdosing on fentanyl, flubromazolam and methamphetamine a year ago, i just found out by one of his close friends not long after this post. he was a good dude he just had major drug problems, i will miss him.
@@mumbos8211 that’s nature thinning out the idiots
@@Aparou27 you wouldnt say that if it was your family
@Ithecastic he didnt overdose on acetone, as far as acetone goes, there is not much dosing information but we do know the LD50 (lethal dose), when he was doing it he always drank less than the lethal dose. the main reason acetone is toxic is because of how potent it is as a CNS depressant, it has a very high affinity towards gaba receptors like ethanol, GHB etc, so high doses have the potential to kill you. when he overdosed it wasnt acetone, he was on a mixture of fentanyl, flubromazolam which is a very potent research chemical benzodiazapine much stronger than xanax and other pharma benzos and methamphetamine, the cause of death was respiratory depression most likely from the fentanyl and flubromazolam which he both consumed very large amounts of.
I somehow remember from college organic chemistry that all alcohols are toxic and that being drunk is actually mild poisoning. BTW. the term "Alcohol" refers to many organic compounds having the -OH hydroxyl group in its molecular structure.
Here in Italy we use mostly denatured alcohol for non drinking use.
It smells strong and has a vivid pink color, you cannot mistake it for simply ethanol
My cousin rents a room from a severe alcoholic that has such extreme addiction, during the Covid lockdown, she drank rubbing alcohol, hand sanitizer, her own rotten fruit juice wine stuff, nail polish remover, and hair spray trying to get over the detox pains. She didn’t have a car and my cousin was trying to save her by not taking her to the gas station to get beer or anything but after a week of her drinking anything she could get her hands on, he finally just started buying her beer from any place that was open. Alcoholics will go to insane lengths to get drunk. 😢
It becomes a basic need at one point. Some people make drinking their main hobby without realizing it, then associate sobriety with boredom.
and if shes died from drinking something he should of been held responsible if want help get her rehab not cause her drink stuff kill her
Bruh, people died not getting their alcohol fix during lockdowns. That's not a good way to go, should've gotten her to the hospital where they'd give her benzos to take the edge off. Otherwise they can literally have seizures and die.
@@jonsworld5307forcing someone to go to rehab is wrong and won't work. You'll just piss them off
@@jonsworld5307 Severe alcoholics can get withdrawals and die from not getting alcohol
That one time I was cleaning my cpu and left the iso next to my water bottle then got up in the middle of the night and took a swig of the wrong bottle...
🤢🤢🤢🤢
What happened ⁉️
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@@nakulsri242 he survived
@@tobiasbalk3140 I was expecting the details
This doesn't apply in my country. Here rubbing alcohol is ethanol as well, just with added menthol. Needless to say I tried it and now my favorite liquor store is the pharmacy.
Here in Finland too it's safe to drink it. They just make it taste very very bad.
i had alcohol denaturated with menthol as well, spent my underage years wasted on it haha
In my country too, but there's still a chance it can be contaminated with methanol, therefore it's dangerous
Did you mean to write methanol? Menthol is a VERY different thing.
@@0x8badf00d nope. I did mean menthol. I'm aware that if it were methanol I wouldn't be writing this
I actually drank an unknown amount of diluted 99% isopropanol after a few beers.
I was blackout drunk pretty much instantly, the next day I could barely leave my bed, horrible hangover and still feeling drunk. Not so fun fact: Acetone not only gets excreted through urine but also your lungs. I was breathing acetone for 2 days while being nauseas af. Wouldn't recommend
Are you okay now?
I almost did this unintentionally, because I had a memory lapse and thought the rubbing alcohol bottle was the mouthwash. My mom asked me what I was doing and I took a second look at the bottle realizing how close I was lmao.
I’ve actually drank rubbing alcohol a few times and I got hella drunk but the hang over was horrible
swag
I worked with a guy on a Farm. Every day he drank the isopropyl alcohol that was meant to clean wounds on the cattle. And you can imagine he did not look healthy.
Actually, during "lockdown" in my state, the liquor stores were all OPEN.
Yeah, because if they stopped the sales of alcohol, the hospitals would be even more crowded than they already are from people going through alcohol withdrawal.
I had a great uncle who used to take rubbing alcohol, pour it into a loaf of bread, then drink whatever came out the other side. That was his breakfast beverage of choice. He did this for decades, until he died of cancer in his early 40's.
What type of cancer did he have?
What type of cancer?
I'm a medic and I really need to commend you for your good presentation of this medical/chemistry topic. I really haven't seen anybody explain this in more understandable terms for laypeople while still remaining accurate.
As a Chemist I agree that this was a fair 30,000 ft overview but there is a far simpler way to explain it. Ethanol = Edible grains like Corn, Barley, Wheat. Isopropyl = propylene a chemical obtained from petroleum and natural gas..
Laypeople... The term is always Laymen and we all know why you choose a different term. Please tell you're not actually this stupid?
Ironic that a treatment for methyl alcohol (methanol) poisoning is ethanol, since the latter is a better competitive agonist for alcohol dehydrogenase (which prevents the metabolism of methanol).
I've drank over a litre of the "rubbing" alcohol that is commonly used here in Sweden, there are a few different variants, but they mostly contain pure ethanol and some additives. Some (most?) contains bittrex and the one that have in front of me now does have that (unfortunately), it says it contains 680g/ml ethanol which is on the low side and 131g/kg of propan-2-ol which is a bit much but I would have drank it if not for the foul taste
Hey Frank,
Sweden is a beautiful country. My wife has friends there. We live in Japan and here I found Ethanol IP for Disinfection.
I use it for my nutritional IV. Is what I have the same thing as what you wrote about?
I have been looking for hydrogen peroxide but can't find it here.
Thank you for the kind reply. 😊
In a lot of countries we still use ethanol as a disinfectant. We just add a denaturant. This usually is a compound that helps kill more bacteria. It will also give you nasty diarrhea and bypass the alcohol drink tax.
When I was 14 I tried to unalive by drinking this..
I smelt like it for several days after AND I could still taste it. Sometimes I still can’t stand the smell or anything that smells similar such as hand sanitizer and certain mouth washes… Also can only use certain toothpastes because some for some reason make me think of it.
It was extremely disgusting and I puked my guts out.
Why did you think that would work lol
@@AnonymousDumboOctopus I was 14 🤣
How much did you drink and do you have any long term effects from it now?
@@sebastianlara503 a chugged from the bottle so I'm not sure, at 1 cup or 2 worth
I don't think I have an effects from it, but I might just not aware
I'm exactly 15 seconds into this video, and I know everything I need to know. No need to check 0:16 , I'm sure that I know everything I need now.
I don’t get why a scientific education channel misses the opportunity to explain there’s more than two types of alcohol.
keepin it simple for the folks. though no discussion of butanol, mannitol, etc, he did mention methanol
because the video is directed at a child audience so he needs to keep it simple and short
@@orangutex468 are you stupid? A child audience? Lmfao
@@orangutex468children are not alcoholics usually
@@orangutex468 When did kids ever have the tendency to start drinking?
It's kind of laughable that someone thinks convenience/liquor retailers would be closed during quarantine. If anything, vice sales skyrocketed.
I remember as a kid I sat in the restroom tempting to drink it just cause I was curious how it would taste. No body ever told me that I would die or that it was harmful (label was torn off the bottle & I was like 5-7 of age). And some reason I didn’t ended up drinking it. Wondered what changed my mind?
You wouldn’t have been able to get it down, especially at 6 years old. It burns like a mother when not diluted. We had dudes in the military drinking it (in the form of hand sanitizer mixed with salt to pull out the gel), and you have to be very determined and absolutely desperate. Some of them had chemical burns in their mouths and esophagus, as well as gastrointestinal bleeding because they drank it without diluting it. Some of the “smart” ones would mix it with beverage base powder (like the lemonade powder packets you put into a bottle of water) and water.
Their bodies the next day would reek, just emanating the smell of sweet nail polish remover (acetone). Nothing like being in formation next to dudes that smell like that and body odor in 100 degree summer heat. Makes my stomach turn just thinking about it.
I would say the smell, but with how many stories there are of young children drinking whole bottles of poison yet not wanting to eat carrots, I'd say you just got very lucky and realized at the last second "Nah, that's dumb."
Taxes are NOT the only reason rubbing alcohol is different. Acetone is nail polish as well.
My favorite piece of real life lore is that alcohol is way overpriced for absolutely no reason, and the only reason you can't drink the cheap rubbing alcohol from the dollar store is because they put a chemical in it specifically so you can't drink it.
Imagine a World where alcohol was as cheap as soda pop, well what other problems would you then have to complain about ?
Think about it.
Gaz UK.
Absolutely love this channel!
Much appreciated!
If acetone is both cheaper and gets you drunk EVEN faster why shouldnt you just drink that?
It's also safer for the body than acetadlehyde if consumed in tiny amounts 😃
Why are we ignoring the fact that two of his patrons are named "Kurzgesagt Fan" and "Yare Yare Daze" 😂
Regardless, top notch video, can't wait to see this channel blow up soon!
When my older sister was a little less than two, she got into a bottle of rubbing alcohol while thinking it was water. She took a couple swallows before she started throwing up, alerting my mom, who was in university at the time and doing homework. Mom called poison control, but by the time they got there, my sister had thrown up everything she ingested. It’s a somewhat funny story now, especially considering how book- and street-smart my sister is nowadays.
I tried this once. It burns your throat and your stomach and you’ll taste it when you burp for the next 3 days. Probably drank about 1 1/2 shots of it. I didn’t go blind or have alcohol poisoning but it is more potent than normal ethanol alcohol, and is more likely to damage your esophagus and stomach and cause cancer.
Another reason not to drink isopropyl alcohol is that there can be other ingredients in it besides it and water. These aren't disclosed in the bottle labeling as they don't have to be.
That methanol situation in prohibition is why people think you can go blind from bad moonshine. Moonshine made without added solvents cant make you go blind, and in fact well made moonshine will give you less of a hangover than commercial stuff.
@@ithecastic right, the only reason to add solvents to moonshine is for nefarious purposes.
I didn't mean any attitude whatsoever, I thought we were in agreeance. I'm a chemist and a distiller so I know what you meant by heads and tails. But methanol doesn't actually come out in the foreshots because the molecule has a higher affinity for water than ethanol, and therefore drags its feet about evaporating. I guess ethanol is a solvent but I meant added solvents like methanol to stretch out the volume of product or poison whoever may drink it.
@@ithecastic haha, no worries 🤣
I once got "drunk" from inhaling it, i was working on fixing a problem on a motherboard and back then was doing it as a hobby, so finding a faulty SMD on a motherboard required lots of isopropanol, cheaper than a FLIR camera for finding the damn SMD that's shorted. It's also great for cleaning flux after soldering. Long story short, i had a raging headache and some dizziness because i've sat right above it the whole time in a poorly ventilated room...
I had about half an ounce to an ounce of isopropyl alcohol once. It didn’t make me feel drunk as much as I just couldn’t keep my head up above my desk. I felt no high, but I was so fatigued. It definitely has the tiring effects of ethanol, but isn’t recreational.
It was either a low concentration or your stomsch was full. Then again half an oz doesnt sound like a lot either.
@@mycelia_ow I think the people at the hospital said that an ounce to an ounce and a half is usually the lethal amount.
@@GogiRegioni had 4 ozs lol 8 can kill you
I used (during the pandemic) and continue to use grain alcohol for disinfecting. It's $15 for a bottle that lasts me weeks. 96% alcohol and evaporates super fast because it has way less water.
I use it on my hands and at work to clean my desk, mouse, and keyboard.
Yes...YESSSS
The man of science is BACK!
Please do a video on why you shouldn’t inhale rubbing alcohol. Way more people are secretly addicted to sniffing/huffing it
The same applies for the "first head" of moonshine, and the first batch of many liquors
And some alcoholics bare a tolerance to medical alcohol (I've known some to have done this daily and survive)
First head contains most of the methanol, sometimes also some ethyl acetate. It should never be drunk. The oily afterrun is called fusel oil. It's a mixture of higher alcohols including isopropanol. It smells bad (like unwashed feet + alcohol) and can make you really drunk, but produces the vilest of hangovers. The poorest, most degenerated drunks from 19th century used to drink fusel oil when they had nothing else.
@@bromisovalum8417 impressive, never knew that much about it
I once accidentally drank a big gulp of it (because someone in my household put it in a water bottle, but it was labeled in permanent marker and it was under the sink, but me being 9-10 years old I didn't pay attention to either), spit it out immediately, fast forward to 2021 and at a house party I drink a cup of red wine thinking it was coca cola, as soon as that happened and I felt the taste and smell and all that stuff in my mouth, it immediately sent me back to the rubbing alcohol incident and just how similar the two felt, I though still instinctively spit out the red wine lol
Absolutely, don't trust anyone, anywhere. Some people poison others without them knowing it. Have caution any where food, beverage, is consumed.
At the start of the pandemic I couldn’t find isopropyl alcohol for sale.
I went to the liquor store and bought a 1.75-liter bottle of the cheapest maximum-proof grain alcohol (it’s only 153 proof here in Florida) I could easily get. Expensive, but I wanted to have some sort of sanitizer.
In a few weeks, isopropanol started showing up again. Some hand sanitizer I bought was probably ethanol based because it smelled of whiskey!
When the pandemic gradually died down I started drinking the 153-proof booze, using it to spike diet soft drinks. Took a while to finish.
☝️presenting to the emergency room.
-emia, meaning prescience in blood
We had a lady in the ER who came in for ETOH (alcohol) overdose. She kept shaving a rise in her blood alcohol level and was markedly more drunk than when she was admitted.
We finally caught her mixing the gel hand sanitizer with salt, separating the gel and turning it to a drinkable form of alcohol.
Needless to say we had a new policy and education that alcoholic abuse / drunk patients were not allowed to have salt packets or gel hand sanitizers at their disposal.
Alcoholics can be genius 😂
That is seriously clever!
Why would there be salt in the ER? Google couldn't tell me.
I guess its the right answer for such a short video. In a longer video studies of drinking each of the three could be discussed. Its obviously harder to dose it correctly, but also the 'highs' are slightly different (you are not getting the hoped drunken state, but another one) and the next day aftermaths are different.
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So theoretically, i could take a half shot and live, right??
yes but you could get very sick
I drank isopropyl alcohol back in highschool, would not recommend. The taste lasts for a week, and the headache/hangover lasts longer. Still can't stand the smell without getting triggered.
Liquor stores stayed open for the most part during lockdown. Alachol is one of the two drugs that has withdrawals that will kill you. Leaving no choice but to keep them open.
Yup. My boyfriend's dad died of withdrawal a couple years ago. He had only been an alcoholic for a few years. I know that sounds crazy but it's true.. his wife left him and he started drinking out of nowhere and it got really bad the last year of his life. The ironic part was, his old friend and his son came from out of state to do a nonchalant intervention. Because of them being there, my boyfriend's dad felt awkward and weird drinking with them visiting so he didn't. They came up on a Friday evening and he went two nights without a drink. He died of withdrawal Sunday morning. I'm not sure the exact cause of death because my boyfriend is so traumatized from it and I never asked him, but it was 100% from withdrawal. Two frickin days. It's unbelievable. I've advocated for liquor stores to stay open during the pandemic because of this. It's not a joke that people make it out to be.
@@Ena48145 Jesus. How much was the dad drinking ?? He didn't ask to go to the hospital? Sorry for your loss
What's the other one?
I built an acetone + glowing copper wire lamp in my room. After several hours of experimentation I noticed I was very dizzy and my breath smelled vaguely fruity/solvent-like. After turning off the lamp and opening the window it took several hours before I felt normal again. Not sure if what poisoned me was acetone or ethenone
You absolute idiot you were inhaling acetone
unlesss your eye was bleeding, it was likely acetone.
Also, don't do stupid shit
Who would ever drink rubbing alcohol in the first place? If you have ever used it on a wound, it burns like hell.
Someone at my school chugged a bottle of rubbing alcohol in the art room and had to get their stomach pumped
one time, i used isopropyl alcohol to “rinse my mouth” when i ran out of mouth wash and i stg my mouth burned horrifically for at least 20-30 mins after the fact. i also had a very sick stomach and i don’t even think i swallowed any
I thought it would taste minty but it was just bitter, and while it was in my mouth it felt like it was getting hotter and hotter until I spit it out. I did this to win an argument, at the end of it I won. I did plan on swallowing it but because of the heat I didn't.
0:03 Uhhhhhh.....I'd rather order through Doordash/Grubhub/etc & pay outrageous prices to get booze from a restaurant before even considering drinking rubbing alcohol!
But for this to be the actual case, you would have to foolishly imagine that the gvt does not care about us, right?
ahaha
"foolishly"
Yes the government cares about us, specifically a small part of us called our wallet
There is a specific type of people where I live that drink that stuff. At Walmart and at the pharmacy stores they lock peroxide and rubbing alcohol up. Same with aeorsol cans. THAT'S how bad drugs abuse is where I live.
One of my roommates at Job Corps where I was studying drank hand sanitizer after they ran out of vodka. Hand sanitizer is also isopropyl alcohol. All that happened was he got drunker.
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i wasn’t planning on drinking rubbing alcohol, but this is good to know.
Oh I am
During the pandemic when I was really going through some hardcore alcoholism I actually considered doing this
0:51 in case you didn't know it some people like to stay with their own people
back in college when i was renting an apartment, there was this local homeless guy named john that asked people for change and i always saw him drinking listerine
Yeah I tried this. It gave me a drunk feeling like normal, but my head was hungover and in an inescapable haze for days. I *only* had two shots of 70%. I drank ethyl and not isopropyl, which is less poisonous, but I can’t imagine what would’ve happened if I drank a more significant amount.
thinking about doing this just to fucj around and find out, 2 shots i weigh 120 would i get hungover?
@@jjdayoungin947 I weighed 150 and was drinking heavily every single day at the time, so big tolerance for processing the stuff, and it still messed my brain up, totally unlike normal alcohol, for a solid couple days.
I definitely don’t recommend it, and good lord be careful you don’t drink the wrong type because methyl could actually make you go blind (and I think isopropyl is highly poisonous as well). The ethyl felt almost exactly like normal alcohol but I just felt extra horrible afterwards. Maybe just go buy some normal grain alcohol if you wanna drink something crazy, rubbing alcohol really ain’t it haha.
@@Redsoxman9991 Lmao thank you bro i’m just gonna not drink it 😭🤞🏽
@@jjdayoungin947 I’m glad I was able to help avoid that!
Very informative video! Imma make sure to never be tempted into drinking rubbing alcohol.
In the city where I used to live, the beverage of choice anong the unhoused was mouthwash. It is essentially just alcohol, and the cheapest option available by far. Local stores all kept it behind the counter as it was very commonly stolen.
I once needed some high-proof rubbing alcohol to clean electronics. I practically had to convince the pharmacist that I was not going to drink it before he would sell it to me.
I have since moved cross-country to a much smaller city. I am amazed at the lack of restrictions on what I can purchase.
you also shouldn't be allowed to make laws
we got trashed on hand sanitizer in basic training it was so bad i felt so terrible
I knew a kid in highschool who drank an entire bottle of rubbing alcohol thinking it would impress some girls. He was quickly taken to the hospital and had his stomach pumped. He survived but those girls never talk to him again. And he never seemed quite "right" ever since then.
@linus cat tips haha and always stay sober around drunk hoes, fun to be had!
That totally happened
@@linuscattips6207 Still not really safe
Love how you mention that the govt would miss out on tax revenue. Its the only reason any drug is illegal in the first place. Its ability to be taxed.
I'll stick with my glass of hairspray.
One time I tried to drink a bottle of 80% (?) rubbing alcohol to kms and now I can't drink anything evergreen mint flavored without getting insanely nauseous
As a professional alcoholic i was every day drunk during covid, because free hand sanitizer was everywhere 😁
I don't even drink Ethanol. I prefer the drug that works opposite of Ethanol, i.e. Caffeine.
Ya uppers ftw. Although I usually prefer stuff a tad stronger than caffeine.
@@beckhamtoovey4140 Methylphenidate?
@@sheepketchup9059 methylphenidate is ok but I much prefer dextroamphetamine.
@@beckhamtoovey4140 wat are you talking about-
@@STingyWasTaken things that I abuse to make life less shitty