Teenagers are now finding many new ways to get high. One way is by drinking hand sanitizer. There are reports that teens are showing up to emergency rooms drunk on hand sanitizer (www.myfoxphoenix.com, 2012).

Hand sanitizer is supposed to keep germs at bay, but lately poison control centers are getting calls every week about teenagers drinking the gel or foam for a quick high. There is 63 percent of ethyl-alcohol in hand sanitizer. That is about the equivalent of hard vodka. Consuming hand sanitizer is very dangerous for your health. It causes problems such as liver disease, problems with bleeding, an aspiration risk, and many other scary risks, including death.                                                          
            When asked about this arising problem, many teens said they too would do it, especially if it was a dare. Others, like me, thinks it's dumb. For someone, especially at a young age with a lot of their life still ahead of them, to put their life in jeopardy like that is just ridiculous.