In Phoenix Teens Are Taking Getting High To New Limits
Posted by: Susannah Breslin
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11:19AM, Wednesday August 26th 2009
I found this report so disturbing that during our daily meeting here at Frisky Headquarters, when everyone clamored for more info on the whys and the hows, I protested. According to this news story, teens in Phoenix, Arizona are doing some things so disturbing I’m putting them after the jump.
It used to be that teens would nick booze from their parents’ pantry to get wasted. Not anymore. Nowadays, kids are snorting vodka, doing anal beer bongs, and soaking tampons in vodka. The goal is faster absorption, and the young people doing it are damaging their internal systems. Anal beer bongs? Vodka-soaked tampons? It sounds almost too crazy to be true. But it is. How an anal beer bong works, I do not want to know.
Check out the video to hear more about the craze and the other ways kids are hiding their stashes.
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joyy
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 10:30 am: [report]
Oh wow, and I thought the idea of putting chewing tobacco in, um, non-mouth areas with delicate skin was gross. On a lighter note though, Phx is a pretty wretched place - little wonder kids are pumping themselves full of drugs to escape their reality
coriannen
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 10:34 am: [report]
As a Phoenix resident, i’m not surprised. There really isn’t much to do here if you’re under age. Soaking a tampon in vodka is still a pretty nasty thought though.
CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 10:34 am: [report]
I’ve heard of the anal beer bong (not the other things thankfully), and understand how it works. In essence the alcohol enters the blood stream directly, bypassing the digestive system which slows down absorption. This is injecting heroin vs. drinking it in a “tonic”.
Oh, btw, if you had seen the Jackass movie, they did this.
skywalk
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 10:38 am: [report]
And back in the day smoking pot was the route of Evil?
CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 10:40 am: [report]
@skywalk: Pot is too passe. Get your hardcore on!
spatula
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 10:49 am: [report]
i have actually heard of the tampon vodka thing. how strange.
conspicuous
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 10:54 am: [report]
A big problem with taking a beer bong anywhere but your mouth is that the alcohol doesn’t pass through and get broken down in the liver. The BAL would shoot right up and you can get alcohol poisoning or much worse very easily.
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/3897489/10613106
Oh, and besides that it’s totally disgusting…
AlisonNoelle
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 10:55 am: [report]
Um….. Ok. The anal beer bong thing….. Doesn’t that kind of defy gravity once you get back on your feet? Whatever happened to good ol’ Jagerbombs? Aren’t they fast enough?
nikkiwikki
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 10:55 am: [report]
As a teenager living in a state and city where drinking is incredibly popular, I have never heard of any of these things. I swear to you, all of these stories about blow jobs being the new goodnight kiss are made up to give parents an excuse to be the next Argus Filch.
PinkRanger
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 11:08 am: [report]
Why wouldn’t you want to taste your drunks for god’s sake? That’s half the fun!
kellieann
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 11:13 am: [report]
I doubt any of this is true.
VannaMarie
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 11:14 am: [report]
Saw this on the Doctors a while back. Scared me senseless but I wondered how frequently this happens. Although, the fact that it happens at all is to frequently for my liking.
spanishbutterfly
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 11:20 am: [report]
i have heard about the soakin of tampoons with vodka, i just dont understand why ?? the concept i get, wat the hell is wrong with these kids ??
Coral
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 11:28 am: [report]
I live in Boston and I have definitely heard of tampons soaked in vodka. A girl I’m sort of friends with did this on a dare—she got really drunk quite quickly, but she also said it burned like hell. I don’t drink at all anymore, but when one is getting drunk by other means besides the mouth, you know there is a problem. Although I don’t anyone who has done this personally, I know of people who snort candy, like fun dip powder, lemonade or kool-aid powder—of course one cannot get high, but it is highly destructive to the body.
I Go To 11
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 11:36 am: [report]
I suppose the Dandy Warhols were right when they said, “Heroin is so passe’”. What won’t these crazy folks think of next? Vodka burns enough going down the throat, so it hurts just trying to imagine it in the more sensitive areas. WTH?
*sam*
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 12:37 pm: [report]
ooo, I’ve accidentally snorted triple-distilled 90 proof vodka through my nose (my bestie made me laugh while in the middle of taking a shot)—I cried. I can’t even imagine what it would feel like in my lady bits!!!
saramarie
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 02:04 pm: [report]
what I want to know is who was the first person to go “hey wait a minute….why drink this when I can simply SHOVE IT UP MY DOODER???”
AgentBeryllium
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 02:36 pm: [report]
I say good for them. Damage your reproductive organs then you won’t have stupid kids like you.
If they are doing anal Beer Bongs and sticking soaked vodka tampons in their ‘peach’. I would say that there has been a problem going on for years.
theattack
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 04:19 pm: [report]
I don’t doubt that this happens, but I doubt that it’s a very widespread practice. Preteens are getting drunk and smoking weed and having sex, but I doubt most of them are stupid enough to do this sort of thing. Surely it’s just a handful.
EarthGoddess
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 04:54 pm: [report]
Wow ... being a mom just gets scarier every day. My daughter’s only in 3rd grade ... what kinds of crazy will be happening once she reaches middle and high school? Good Lord!
Mariabeth67
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 05:06 pm: [report]
Energy drinks can lead kids to drugs??
By that logic, I should be a drug-lord right now.
Justine
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 05:14 pm: [report]
Snorting pixie sticks doesn’t count as drugs.. it just hurts like hell.
loveitlala
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 05:47 pm: [report]
What an easy way to die.
Caysek
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 06:28 pm: [report]
I teach high school in a Phoenix suburb, and I heard about “butt-chugging” last year from a co-worker. The alleged reason for this stupidity is that the teens don’t want their parents to smell alcohol on their breath. Because falling over drunk or having a massive hangover won’t give it away or anything.
I imagine it happens but not often. If the media freaks out about it and spreads the word, then it will only increase how often it happens.
Coral
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 07:18 pm: [report]
@Caysek: No, the main reason for doing such is because one will get drunk much quicker than consuming it orally. Another reason is that many people don’t like the taste of hard liquor, which is stronger than beer or wine, so some people do it so that they don’t have to endure the horrid taste required for getting that drunk. Yet, it’s still stupid, in my opinion.
writergirl
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 07:25 pm: [report]
I couldn’t imagine the burn from the tampon. Wouldn’t that do some kind of internal damage? I mean….if you soak salmon in something acidic, it cooks. So what the HELL is vodka doing to your insides?
(Please excuse the fish analogy, I couldn’t figure out any better way to describe it)
*sam*
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 07:31 pm: [report]
@Coral: *regardless* of the taste of hard liquor, I would MUCH rather deal with the taste than the *unbelievable* burn of having vodka shoved in my lady parts!!! god, that’s *so* dumb!!
Sami
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 07:52 pm: [report]
I don’t drink alchohol unless it is in the form of Chilean red wine and I live in Wisconsin so I am a anomaly apparrently, but my view on this is WTF WERE THEY THINKING, I MEAN THEY DID AT LEAST FILM THIS SO THEY COULD GET ON THE SMOKING CUN PRESENT’S RIGHT; and people wonder why most high schoolers can’t read the english language well here’s thier answer. I mean why would anyone do this to thier bodies on purpose is beyond me, but then again I am someone who has had about 2 ounces of alchohol in my entire life even though my family owns O’Wheelahan Brewery and Wheeler Winery which I have to admit is kind of odd; aw well at least I will never get a DUI ticket hope these idiots learn thier lesson or move to Alaska….
Coral
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 08:04 pm: [report]
@sam: Yeah, I completely agree. I would never do that and never have, but I do know people that have. I surprisingly like the taste of hard liquor, but people take to the extremes of getting buzzed and drunk.
CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on August 26 2009 @ 08:23 pm: [report]
@Coral: Yay for whiskey! Shame on my d|ck!
crustee
wrote on August 27 2009 @ 01:33 pm: [report]
Arizona, today I’m going to offer you a gift. And the gift is you no longer need to live like this.
johnhuger
wrote on August 28 2009 @ 02:41 am: [report]
I don’t get what the real problem is with kids. It seems like each year there is another level of curiosity for depravity that our kids are getting involved in. If there ever was a time for kids to just say No, it’s now.
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luckgirl
wrote on August 28 2009 @ 03:16 am: [report]
isn’t the point of drinking hard liquor the burn of it. Vodka is a killer going down, i couldn’t imagine what it would feel like on a tampon. I can’t imagine where they seen this. I think parents need to be more proactive with their kids, not just on this issue. but children with healthy relationships with their parents are less likely to embark on this odd behaviors, not to say they wont try it, cause teenagers try the newest thing. I have a 5 year old, and I am pretty terrified for her to grow up because of what she will hear, and things that will be going on in 10 years. how much worse can it get?
Infamous
wrote on August 28 2009 @ 03:01 pm: [report]
Phoenix is screwed up, and kids shoving beer bongs up their asses (HYGIENE much??!! Do they each have their own?) is really minor considering the ridiculously high number of residents there that are or have been on meth.
AgentBeryllium
wrote on August 28 2009 @ 03:09 pm: [report]
@infamous.. c’mon.. each have their own? They wouldn’t have enough common sense. They would be sharing of course.
Squidtermz
wrote on August 28 2009 @ 03:48 pm: [report]
They snort vodka up their noses in Europe… not a new thing. Oh well kids. He who swallows the most marbles doesnt grow up to have kids of their own. :-p
lareinedeslames
wrote on August 28 2009 @ 10:02 pm: [report]
You know, it’s funny… My parents taught me how to take a tequila shot at age seven (very responsible: “this is an important social skill!”—granted, they were drunk at the time, themselves).
That brief moment of insanity aside, my parents had a pretty moderate attitude towards alcohol; if I really, really wanted to get drunk, I could do so under their supervision. I never really did. Taking away the “forbidden” aspect of it works pretty well, I’d say. I generally don’t drink to excess now that I’m an adult, and I’ve only been sick from alcohol twice, and those two times were more because of the types of alcohol than the amount.
Can we please just educate our kids about drugs, alcohol, and sex, instead of making it a fun forbidden thing for them to do?
Coral
wrote on August 28 2009 @ 10:24 pm: [report]
@lareinedeslames: I agree with taking away the forbidden aspect it. My parents half did that. One of my best friends’ mother was like that though and we used to always want to get drunk or drink a bit with our friends. And her mother would allow us to do so under her supervision. We had fun with it for awhile, but I really don’t need alcohol in my life at all. I’m about to go to college, and I don’t need all that partying in my life. So, I do agree with teaching kids more about alcohol, drugs, and sex, because in the long run, it really does prevent kids from engaging in that sort of behavior.
LostInStars
wrote on August 29 2009 @ 02:21 am: [report]
Vodka soaked tampon goes WHERE?! Noooo! What has been seen cannot be unseen!
Shotputter
wrote on August 31 2009 @ 02:04 pm: [report]
I knew girls in college that did the vodka soaked tampon thing. They said it was A. Cheaper becuase it old took a little over a shot to get wasted and B. it was calorie free, so they didnt gain a pound. They were nuts.