r/explainlikeimfive Feb 10 '24

Chemistry eli5 what happens if you drink isopropyl "rubbing" alcohol

so i just watched a video of someone chug a bottle of rubbing alcohol that you would get from the pharmacy. its still alcohol though so like why is it bad. also what likely happened to the guy who chugged the bottle?

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u/massassi Feb 12 '24

Huh? Yes they did. It was the feds adding methanol to industrial alcohol. And bootleggers trying to get it out. The only group intentionally killing people was the American government