Would an IV of liquor kill you?

[John Smith]

Just an idea. I haven't had much luck with partial and am afraid of failing at full and having rope burn on the neck.

 

[Threads]

https://www.brainstuffshow.com/blogs/what-would-happen-if-you-took-alcohol-intravenously.htm

Now let's say that instead of drinking the alcohol, you inject pure ethanol straight into a vein [**]. For example, say you inject 2.5 ounces of ethanol (the amount of alcohol in 5 ounces of 100 proof moonshine) right into the bloodstream. The big difference is the time. Instead of it taking an hour for the alcohol to absorb, the alcohol is all there instantly. That's 60 grams of alcohol straight into a bloodstream containing approximately 5 liters (5,000 grams) of blood. There will be a moment or two where the blood alcohol concentration is 60 / 5,000 - a toxic, possibly fatal level - before that alcohol diffuses into the water and fat of the entire body and falls by a factor of 10 to 60 / 50,000 [***].

So to answer your question, there really isn't any chemical difference between drinking and injecting alcohol. In both cases you have ethanol molecules flowing in the bloodstream. But there is a big time difference. And because of the time difference you would need to be extremely careful in the amount injected. A mistake could be fatal. It would be good to apply the "don't try this at home" rule.

https://academic.oup.com/alcalc/article/34/6/918/192717

It would be a painful way to go.

 

[worldexploder]

This method has fail written all over it.

 

[Schopenhauer]

This method has fail written all over it.

All these unorthodox methods perennially proposed are guaranteed to fail. And if tried, most would fail in horrific ways. Dying is no joke.

 

[Dani Paradox]

Who knows... It might, or it might not. Either way, I can't even imagine the pain that would be felt.

 

[TAW122]

Yeah, I don't think it would be pleasant at all. I would look into other ways to ctb that are more reliable and less painful (or painless altogether).

 

[maktubler]

It probably won't feel good going in as well. Will probably be very painful burning on its way up the vein.

 

[worldexploder]

It probably won't feel good going in as well. Will probably be very painful burning on its way up the vein.

Your right because alcohol is processed though the liver and turned into another enzyme that I can't think of.

 

[1964dodge]

on a show I saw of true deaths someone accidentally died from a hard liquor enema he couldn't drink alcohol for some reason I can't remember why so being a desperate alcoholic he begged his wife to do it. it had something to do with instant absorbing of the alcohol. it may take more than 1 fith depending on tolerance and it didn't seem painful I wouldn't do it without more research though just to make sure on amounts needed etc.

 

[kkatt]

I read about a thing where kids were soaking tampons in Alcohol to get wasted.....not sure of the details but it's definitely quite dangerous
Administering an IV takes a bit of knowledge
I can imagine it would burn like a bitch
Then there's the issue of it not being processed by the kidneys/liver
Reckon it would be a pretty awful way to go,if it did work.