The answer, by the way, is vanilla extract, hand sanitizer, mouthwash, and brake fluid. All containing enough alcohol to make them irresistible to addicts.Common household products alcohol addicts are abusing... can you guess what they are? We'll tell you at 6 @ktva http://pic.twitter.com/tj2oQUQFT2— Daniella Rivera (@RiveraDanie) September 14, 2017
Courtesy of KTVA:
While alcohol abuse in Alaska is nothing new, desperation among addicts is becoming more visible inside Anchorage grocery stores. When users can no longer legally buy liquor, they turn to common household products, forcing many businesses to move them behind the counter, in some cases storing them under lock and key.
Last month, while filming an unrelated story, a KTVA news crew watched a man near Bean’s Café down two small bottles of liquid, throw them on the ground, and ride away on a bike while the camera was rolling. The bottles on the ground, now empty, once held vanilla extract.
Krystal Taddicken, who lives at the Brother Francis Shelter, told KTVA a the time, vanilla extract is an easy way for an addict to get drunk if they can’t buy alcohol.
“It shows that it’s 35 percent minimum of alcohol, it’s one of the highest alcohol there is,” she told KTVA, picking the bottle up off the ground and pointing to the ingredients listed on the back.
It’s not just vanilla extract, addicts are using anything that contains alcohol to get drunk, including mouth wash, hand sanitizer and according to the Anchorage Fire Department, brake fluid.
Alcoholism has been a problem in this state, I believe even before we became a state.
My family is essentially wall to wall alcoholics, with only a few nonconformists like my daughter and I standing out from the herd.
And it is much worse among the homeless community.
All of my life I have seen drunks passed out in the woods and along bike paths laying next to bottles of everything from store bought booze to cleaning products that they have huffed or ingested.
I once saw a homeless guy spraying what looked like a disinfectant of some kind into a clear bag and then drinking the contents.
It is hard to imagine how that could get any worse.
But if it has that is very troubling indeed.
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