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This is a partial list of alcohol poisonings in India. These incidents are often – but not exclusively – associated with methanol poisoning of the victims, where toxic methyl alcohol is used as a cheap way, as compared to the proper use of ethanol , to increase the alcohol content of moonshine .
Deaths from illicit liquor are common in India, where illegally manufactured alcohol is often consumed for reasons including poverty and geographic isolation. Bootleggers have been known to add methanol , a toxic substance used in antifreeze, to such brews; it can also be present because of a mistake in the distilling process.
1992 Odisha liquor deaths; 2008 Karnataka-Tamil Nadu alcohol poisonings; 2009 Gujarat alcohol poisonings; 2012 Odisha alcohol poisonings; 2016 Bihar alcohol poisonings; 2019 India alcohol poisoning; 2022 Gujarat alcohol poisoning
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India has a thriving moonshine industry, and methanol-tainted batches have killed over 2,000 people in the last 3 decades, including: 1976: 100 people died in Gujarat. 1980: 44 died in Haryana; 1981: 1981 Karnataka liquor deaths; 1982: Vypeen alcohol poisonings; 1986: 108 died in Gujarat. 1987: 200 died in Gujarat. 1988: 32 people died in Gujarat.
There had been sporadic incidents of poisoning involving illegal liquor in India in the preceding years. In 2020, at least 120 people had died from consuming illicit liquor in Punjab and in 2022, 30 people died in Bihar and 28 died in Gujarat from similar incidents.
On 14 December 2022, an alcohol poisoning took place in Bihar, India. [1] The poisoning resulted in the death of 73 people. [2] The victims consumed hooch (spurious liquor), that is qualitatively different from the standard alcoholic products. [3] It is the highest death toll in Bihar, since liquor prohibition in state in 2016. [4]
c. 2,200 per year (U.S.) [8] Alcohol intoxication , commonly described in higher doses as drunkenness or inebriation , [ 9 ] and known in overdose as alcohol poisoning , [ 1 ] is the behavior and physical effects caused by recent consumption of alcohol .