Open Wound

[Coldfusion]

Would rubbing alcohol on a cut get you drunk quicker as it would go straight into the blood stream?

[woofgang]

no. when you cut yourself, part of the process is to close down blood vessels to stop loss of the red stuff after some bleeding...also it would be sooo agonisingly painful, that you'd need to be drunk in the first place to do it!!

[Bob...]

Thats a pity, I was going to lob off the top my finger and then put it a bottle of whisky and hold my arm up so the bottle drained downwards.

[thekraut]

if you are just looking for a way to get lots of alcohol into your body as quickly as possible - I know people who know people who heard people talk about some guys who knew people who tried it IV - and it worked! It's just a question of dosage, I think.

[Jenny Tools]

in vietnam ?

[thekraut]

Huh?

[thekraut]

Oh sorry, didn't get it right away. No, it's intravenoes in german and I just assumed it's something like intraveneous in english. after blitzkrieg and weltschmerz I thought maybe....

[simontarling]

que?

[Jenny Tools]

No, just feel free to start

[woofgang]

Weel you could mainline alcohol in that way but it would be quite painful and you probably wouldn't have long to enjoy it

[thekraut]

.... depending on the dosage

[Rabelais]

Intravenous Alcohol is used as a treatment for ethylene glycol poisoning. It shunts the metabolism away from the toxic breakdown products leading to nasty things like liver failure and death. It was popular amongst the alcoholic fraternity to drink antifreeze to ensure a few days on an ethanol drip. The therapy was a pain to administer as it required all sorts of annoying maths. The procedure is painless in fact the patient is as blotto as blotto can be. As for the initial enquiry, the surface area and blood flow of a small wound is piddling compared to that of a multifolded stomach with oodles of blood rushing though it.