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Alcohol and Alcoholism Vol. 34, No. 6, pp. 918-919, 1999
© 1999 Medical Council on Alcoholism

Letters to the Editors

INTRAVENOUS INJECTION OF ALCOHOL BY DRUG INJECTORS: REPORT OF THREE CASES

Ameera S. Mahdi and Andrew J. McBride*

Community Addiction Unit, 44–46 Cowbridge Road East, Canton, Cardiff CF11 9DU, UK

Received 8 June 1999; accepted 10 June 1999

The injection of psychoactive drugs, usually by the intravenous route, has been recognized for more than a century, and has become more widespread over recent decades (Golding, 1993Go; Derricot et al., 1999). We have been unable to identify any published examples of the recreational injection of alcohol. We describe here three cases in which intravenous injection of alcohol is reported.

Case 1 was a 29-year-old, single, unemployed and homeless man, admitted to hospital for alcohol and diazepam detoxification. He fulfilled ICD-10 criteria . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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