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People are Still Drinking Bleach-and Vomiting and Pooping their Guts Out:
The "Church of Bleach" is still strong, despite years of warnings.
The US Food and Drug Administration this week released an important health warning that everyone should heed: drinking bleach is dangerous—potentially life-threatening—and you should not do it.
The warning may seem unnecessary, but guzzling bleach is an unfortunately persistent problem. Unscrupulous sellers have sold "miracle" bleach elixirs for decades, claiming that they can cure everything from cancer to HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, flu, hair loss, and more. Some have promoted it to parents as a way to cure autism in children—prompting many allegations of child abuse.
Of course, the health claims are false, not to mention abhorrent. When users prepare the solution as instructed, it turns into the potent bleaching agent chlorine dioxide, which is an industrial cleaner. It's toxic to drink and can cause severe diarrhea, vomiting, life-threatening low blood pressure, acute liver failure, and damage to the digestive tract and kidneys.
In this week's warning, the FDA noted that some sellers will warn consumers that vomiting and diarrhea are common but say that those unpleasant effects indicate the solution is "working."
"That claim is false," the FDA wrote succinctly.
The agency released a nearly identical warning back in 2010. But in this week's consumer alert, the agency said that it has continued to receive "many reports" of consumers sickened by these bleach-based potions.
[...] The FDA says that the products have been hard to scrub out because of claims on social media, where the drinks are promoted along with false health information. Most of the claims can be traced back to Jim Humble, founder and "archbishop" of the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, aka "The Church of Bleach."
Humble has been touting the solution for nearly two decades, referring to it as MMS—Miracle or Master Mineral Solution. (It's also known as the Miracle Mineral Supplement, the Chlorine Dioxide (CD) Protocol, and Water Purification Solution (WPS).) Humble is a former Scientologist who reportedly claims to be a billion-year-old god from the Andromeda galaxy.
I am at a loss for words. That someone has such low regard for other people that he would actively try and persuade parents to give a poison to a child — with autism — and claim the puking and diarrhea are proof it is working.
My heart goes out to the poor, defenseless kid! I just can't fathom. Speechless.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @02:36PM (7 children)
To be clear, of all the things in that list you are most concerned with the coffee?
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @02:43PM (6 children)
Yea, I would say meth > crack > caffeine > amphetamine > cocaine. Basically caffeine is one of the most dangerous and addictive drugs you can take orally, if someone every makes a smokable version (vaporization temperature lower than decomposition temperature) it will be worse than meth and crack combined.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @03:10PM
I want what you're smoking.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @03:10PM (1 child)
https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=12981 [erowid.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @06:04PM
Why do this when you can buy anhydrous caffeine that is already in freebase form?
That dude should have used a crack pipe or minimally a foil with a non plastic straw because he probably burned more caffeine than he ingested. Nowadays it seems that you can buy it premixed to vape it https://eagle.energy/.... [eagle.energy]
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 16 2019, @03:51PM (1 child)
Well, I still take my caffeine orally, because it's to damned hard to keep an IV flowing while driving and working.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 17 2019, @07:02AM
As usual, Runaway has totally overlooked the anal option, except for sheep. Come on, Runaway, though, not literally.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 16 2019, @04:08PM
You stole my list. Guess you have ADD with or without H, real AAHD react differently to stimulant than the general population.
I was put on Ritalin as a kid and that was not the stimulant for me, it almost worked but it transmuteted my impulse into violence... It was stopped after a week and I used compensation mechanism until my my graduate studies when those mental mechanisms became insufficient and my driving erratically aggressive.
Cocaine have a similar action, as far as the brain is concerned, if you ask the cardiac system you would get a different answer... The only time I tried it, I got so angry than I went home to avoid to pick a fight and that was a it, I stayed pissed off for the reminder of the day.
Nowadays, I take prescription amphetamines to be a productive member of society. (without that I have no impulse control and I become the emoji Troll here or a dangerous asshole when on the road. I need Vyvanse (a fancy long acting amphetamine almost devoid of crash and euphoria ) so I can think before I act instead of thinking while acting and feeling bad when realizing a second to late that I did something impulsive and usually damaging...
Never tried smoked meth, orally in small doses it is like vyvanse but with an even longer duration and anxiety toward the endbut if it is like smoked MDPV omg don't do it, smoked stimulant are something else...