Teen Alcohol Trend: Injecting Fruit with Vodka
This is an interesting teen trend and a little scary. I don’t think this is a ‘new’ trend, but it has recently become popular again. Basically, teens are injecting fruits (strawberries, bananas, and oranges are especially popular) and then taking them to school, clubs, concerts, or in lunches and eating the fruit and feeling like they are so smart for sneaking alcohol into a place it is not allowed.
I believe this has become popular because:
1) Teens who do not like the taste of alcohol can put it in fruit and get drunk without tasting the alcohol.
2) It is ‘creative’ and makes the user feel like they are being sneaky.
3) It is easy to sneak alcohol into clubs, parties, or the lunchroom inside an orange.
4) “It is more fun” according to a teen friend who reminded me of this trend when I asked her how she was able to get drunk at a recent concert.
I am not telling parents to check every banana their kid is carrying around, but I would be aware that some kids snuck ‘fruit’ right into prom this year and were able to Tropicana their way to being trashed…oy.
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Here’s a excerpt from a June 8th Chicago Tribune article (”Law Sobering for Parents; Adults Face Jail, Fine for Alcohol Parties”) which lists some other unusual methods teens use to sneak alcohol and pills:
If the parents are savvier at sniffing out contraband, the students are cleverer at concealing it. In Napa Valley, Calif., chaperons confiscated seemingly benign items, such as tubes of lip balm, used to stash pills. In Somerset County, N.J., residents were amazed at tricked-out flip-flops that could be unzipped at the heel and filled with booze. In Chicago’s suburbs, retailers saw a run on Velcro, indispensable for strapping a flask to the leg.
“The kids are always a step ahead,” lamented Liz Nelson of the Lake County Health Department.
[...] Now teens are getting drunk by injecting fruit with alcohol. [...]
lol, I can’t believe they try so hard just to get a few drops of alchohol