AWOL-seen any patients using this yet?

[needsmore$]

hi- just trying to educate my ed staff-'new toy out there'- called awol- it's like nebulizing alcohol- you can buy these machines and inhale alcohol. being hyped as "less hangover, less calories" anyone seen pts with problems related to this?

anne

[CHATSDALE]

This sounds absolutly awful...God help those w/o the sense to help themselves

[rnmi2004]

I haven't heard of this nifty device, but that reminded me of something I heard in class last semester from a student nurse who is also an EMT. She has transported teen girls who are passed out drunk from alcohol soaked tampons. Has anyone else encountered this bit of creative drinking?

[veetach]

havent seen that here..... our patients are experimenting with other ways of "getting drunk". (ie injecting, yes I said INJECTING their veins with vodka!!!! oh and there are the good old vodka enemas too)..... morons

[MarcusKspn]

This looks a lot like a regular O2 concentrator that they painted.

Would you run a risk of aspiration after a whole night of nebulizing Vodka?

[jnette, ASN, EMT-I]

I haven't heard of this nifty device, but that reminded me of something I heard in class last semester from a student nurse who is also an EMT. She has transported teen girls who are passed out drunk from alcohol soaked tampons. Has anyone else encountered this bit of creative drinking?

:eek: OMG !!! How demented is THAT !!!

[armyrn]

I haven't heard of this nifty device, but that reminded me of something I heard in class last semester from a student nurse who is also an EMT. She has transported teen girls who are passed out drunk from alcohol soaked tampons. Has anyone else encountered this bit of creative drinking?

Yes, I have actually seen this. There's no actual "drinking" involved, though. The mucous membranes in certain areas absorb the alcohol into the bloodstream. I'll leave it at that.

[armyrn]

"AWOL" = Alcohol With Out Liquid

You have to admit, that is really creative marketing.

[nekhismom]

It was advertised in an issue of FHM (for him magazine) this summer. I'm sure that incited many young men to try this idea. It's quite expensive, and I thought that the price alone would deter most people from buying one. *sigh* I'm sorry to know that idiots DO have more available cash than most of us.

[SmilingBluEyes]

sounds absolutely freaking stupid to me......

lord, morons reproduce like mice.

[MarcusKspn]

If they are using an Oxygen Concentrator like they show in the picture I would think this whole thing would be illegal. O2 is a medication and they would have to have a prescription to give it to people. Don't you have to have a prescription to buy any kind of nebulizer? I wonder if the FDA has given approval to this thing. I talked to our pharmacist and he said that the good thing with using AWOL would be that once you quit inhaling, you quit absorbing alcohol. If you take 10 shots and then quit, the shots still sit in your stomach and keep on absorbing until its all gone, making you drunker than you were when you quit drinking. But since inhaling is instant, once you quit it quits hitting your blood. Of course it would have a very high potential of getting you alcohol poisoning if you constantly inhale. Osmosis wouldn't let any alcohol leave the blood through the breath if you have 50% alcohol in your lungs. I guess the bartender could regulate how much you have to drink, since he is supposed to do that if you drink regularly. But every kid knows at least once friend who has asthma and has a nebulizer at the home.

[BrandieRNq]

Give me a break!!

Whoever thought up this idea probably started with their kids' home nebulizer.

[apaisRN, RN, CRNA]

What's wrong with just DRINKING alcohol? Like with girls and tampons, how is that easier or more pleasant than a wine cooler?

Not that I'm encouraging excessive drinking, of course. It's just that some people are beyond comprehension.