d3c3e651   
   XPost: misc.survivalism, alt.health, alt.education   
   XPost: alt.fifty-plus.friends   
   From: perryneheum@hotmail.com   
      
   Alexander "Xander" Broughton, 20, had no recollection of losing   
   control of his bowels and defecating on himself," according to a   
   university police report that includes photos of the mess left behind   
   in the fraternity house after the party.   
      
   ==========================   
   "Students, experts recoil at alcohol enema case"   
      
   By Erik Schelzing   
   AP   
   September 29, 2012   
      
   KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Before an unruly Tennessee party ended with a   
   student hospitalized for a dangerously high blood alcohol level, most   
   people had probably never heard of alcohol enemas.   
      
   Thanks to the drunken exploits of a fraternity at the University of   
   Tennessee, the bizarre way of getting drunk is giving parents,   
   administrators and health care workers a new fear.   
      
   When Alexander "Xander" Broughton, 20, was delivered to the hospital   
   after midnight on Sept. 22, his blood alcohol level was measured at   
   0.448 percent — nearly six times the intoxication that defines drunken   
   driving in the state. Injuries to his rectum led hospital officials to   
   fear he had been sodomized.   
      
   Police documents show that when an officer interviewed a fellow   
   fraternity member about what happened, the student said the injuries   
   had been caused by an alcohol enema.   
      
   "It is believed that members of the fraternity were utilizing rubber   
   tubing inserted into their rectums as a conduit for alcohol,"   
   according to a police report.   
      
   While Broughton told police he remembered participating in a drinking   
   game with fellow members of the Pi Kappa Alpha chapter, he denied   
   having an alcohol enema. Police concluded otherwise from evidence they   
   found at the frat house, including boxes of Franzia Sunset Blush wine.   
      
   "He also had no recollection of losing control of his bowels and   
   defecating on himself," according to a university police report that   
   includes photos of the mess left behind in the fraternity house after   
   the party.   
      
   Broughton did not respond to a cellphone message seeking comment on   
   Friday.   
      
   The university responded with swift investigation and a decision   
   Friday to shutter the fraternity until at least 2015. The national Pi   
   Kappa Alpha fraternity organization also accepted the withdrawal of   
   the campus charter.   
      
   Alcohol enemas have been the punch lines of YouTube videos, a stunt in   
   a "Jackass" movie and a song by the punk band NOFX called "Party   
   Enema." But Corey Slovis, chairman of department of emergency medicine   
   and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said actually going through   
   with the deed can have severe consequences.   
      
   "It's something that offers no advantages, while at the same time   
   risking someone's life," he said.   
      
   The procedure bypasses the stomach, accelerating the absorption rate,   
   Slovis said. Pouring the alcohol through a funnel can increase the   
   amount of alcohol consumed because it's hard to gauge how much is   
   going in.   
      
   "When you're dumping it into your rectum, often via a funnel, one or   
   two ounces seems like such a minuscule amount," he said. Ingesting   
   more can create unconsciousness quite quickly, he explained.   
      
   The effects have been fatal in at least one case. An autopsy performed   
   after the death of a 58-year-old Texas man in 2004 showed he had been   
   given an enema with enough sherry to have a blood alcohol level of   
   0.47 percent. Negligent homicide charges were later dropped against   
   his wife, who said she gave him the enema.   
      
   Students walking across campus this week generally responded with   
   sighs and eye rolls when asked about the allegations.   
      
   "It's like a big joke," said Erica Davis, a freshman from   
   Hendersonville. "Because who does that?"   
      
   Gordon Ray, a senior from Morristown, said the details of the case   
   caught him off guard, but not the fact that fraternity members would   
   be overdoing it with alcohol.   
      
   "It is definitely over the top," said Ray. "But it doesn't surprise   
   me, I don't guess."   
      
   The harm the news has done to the university's national reputation was   
   on the mind of several students.   
      
   "If someone wants to be stupid, then they should do it where it won't   
   affect anyone else," said Marlon Alessandra, freshman from   
   Independence, Va.   
      
   James E. Lange, who coordinates alcohol and drug abuse prevention   
   strategies at San Diego State University, said alcohol enemas aren't a   
   common occurrence on campuses, though normal consumption still   
   contributes to hundreds of student deaths annually. And many of those   
   can be attributed to reckless attitudes about the consequences of   
   heavy drinking, he said.   
      
   "It's not unusual to hear that students are drinking to get drunk," he   
   said.   
      
   Lange said he hopes students don't draw the wrong lessons from the   
   University of Tennessee incident.   
      
   "Students and people in general are pretty good at denying that they   
   are at risk for whatever happened to someone else," he said. "So they   
   can look at something like this and say 'I'm OK because I would never   
   do that.'   
      
   "However, they may be drinking heavily, or doing things like mixing   
   alcohol with prescription meds that is putting them at serious risk,"   
   he said.   
      
   To Tennessee freshman Cody Privett of Sevierville, there's nothing   
   appealing about the incident on his campus.   
      
   "It's stupid, it's an unfortunate situation," said Privett, of   
   Sevierville. "I mean there's partying, and then there's other things."   
      
   http://hosted2.ap.org/RIPRJ/APUSnews/Article_2012-09-29-Alcohol%   
   0Enema/id-379f0b53e5ec41f59610c1eeba88a600   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)