Accidental deaths from hand sanitizer consumption among persons with alcohol dependence during the COVID-19 lockdown in India: Analysis of media reports

Unanticipated alcohol bans, as witnessed during the lockdown in response to Covid-19, led to severe withdrawal among dependent users. This sometimes resulted in desperate measures to handle withdrawal. We reviewed media reports of 54 persons who died from the consumption of hand sanitizer or other t...

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Autores principales: Khadse, Pawan Arun, Murthy, Pratima
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Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8312056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34352511
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102794
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description Unanticipated alcohol bans, as witnessed during the lockdown in response to Covid-19, led to severe withdrawal among dependent users. This sometimes resulted in desperate measures to handle withdrawal. We reviewed media reports of 54 persons who died from the consumption of hand sanitizer or other toxic chemicals due to the unavailability of alcohol during the lockdown in India. An informed and gradual cutdown of alcohol availability along with ensuring access to medical help for alcohol withdrawal should be considered of utmost priority in such a context.
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spelling pubmed-83120562021-07-26 Accidental deaths from hand sanitizer consumption among persons with alcohol dependence during the COVID-19 lockdown in India: Analysis of media reports Khadse, Pawan Arun Murthy, Pratima Asian J Psychiatr Short Communication Unanticipated alcohol bans, as witnessed during the lockdown in response to Covid-19, led to severe withdrawal among dependent users. This sometimes resulted in desperate measures to handle withdrawal. We reviewed media reports of 54 persons who died from the consumption of hand sanitizer or other toxic chemicals due to the unavailability of alcohol during the lockdown in India. An informed and gradual cutdown of alcohol availability along with ensuring access to medical help for alcohol withdrawal should be considered of utmost priority in such a context. Elsevier B.V. 2021-09 2021-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8312056/ /pubmed/34352511 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102794 Text en © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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title Accidental deaths from hand sanitizer consumption among persons with alcohol dependence during the COVID-19 lockdown in India: Analysis of media reports
title_full Accidental deaths from hand sanitizer consumption among persons with alcohol dependence during the COVID-19 lockdown in India: Analysis of media reports
title_fullStr Accidental deaths from hand sanitizer consumption among persons with alcohol dependence during the COVID-19 lockdown in India: Analysis of media reports
title_full_unstemmed Accidental deaths from hand sanitizer consumption among persons with alcohol dependence during the COVID-19 lockdown in India: Analysis of media reports
title_short Accidental deaths from hand sanitizer consumption among persons with alcohol dependence during the COVID-19 lockdown in India: Analysis of media reports
title_sort accidental deaths from hand sanitizer consumption among persons with alcohol dependence during the covid-19 lockdown in india: analysis of media reports
topic Short Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8312056/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102794
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