Teen Shoppers Can Get Drunk Without ID On CVS Homeopathic Laxative

[KamaAina]

http://consumerist.com/2015/10/28/teen-shoppers-can-get-drunk-without-id-on-cvs-homeopathic-laxative/

CVS might have stopped selling cigarettes, but you can still buy booze at the drugstore chain — without even getting carded. Just head over to the homeopathic medicine section and pick up some store-brand “constipation relief,” which just happens to be 40-proof.

In a piece for Slate on homeopathic medicine, chemist and blogger Yvette “Sci Babe” d’Entremont notes that this particular CVS product is 20% ethanol, meaning it contains more alcohol by volume than beer or wine.

Yes, the product is sold in 1 ounce containers, but at 20% alcohol and without any age requirement, it might be easier than trying to refill mom and pop’s vodka bottle with water....

If you consumed six servings of a constipation-relieving medicine, you probably would be too busy in the bathroom to worry about your intoxication. But according to d’Entremont the only thing she experienced from her experiment was a buzz.

Party on, Wayne! Party on, Garth!

[Xyzse]

1. OMG, that's disgusting.

Funny, but disgusting.

[madinmaryland]

2. If it was a homeopathic medicine, all the alcohol woul have been

diluted out. So you would only think you are drunk.

[Thor_MN]

3. It might make you drunk, but it won't make you go...

Homeopathic means you take something that would make you constipated, then dilute it until there isn't a molecule left of the original "medicine". Somehow, the diluent is supposed to "remember" the ingredient and then have the opposite effect.


In other words, woo, snake oil, totally useless, unless one has batshit faith that it is going to work.

[NightWatcher]

4. Someone rolls these kids a joint already

Maybe then we can get away from all these quasi drugs like synthetic marijuana, cough medicine, and whatever garbage they can come up with for a buzz.

Cannabis is so much better. Shit, it's practically health food.

[KamaAina]

5. I hear that!

[Major Nikon]

6. Listerine is over 25% alcohol

It reminds me of when my dad got tired of my brother and I drinking his hooch, so he bought the cheapest mescal he could find just to see if we would drink it.

[TexasBushwhacker]

8. Yup. I saw a guy drinking it outside a Family Dollar once

He didn't even get the mint flavor. He got the original burns all the way down Listerine. I could actually smell it. Stephen King used to drink mouthwash too, before he sobered up.

[Snobblevitch]

7. On a somewhat related subject...

I remember reading somewhere about youth experimenting getting intoxicated using alcoholic enemas and alcoholic douches. Those crazy kids.

[KamaAina]

9. "alcoholic douches"?

That sounds like almost as cool of a song title as the one I wrote based on graffiti on a men's room wall in a club in NOLA: "Alcoholic Sluts From Metry"! (It's "Metairie", the white-flight suburb where Ellen grew up and that once elected David Dukkke to the legislature.)