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Alcohol-related deaths in India (35 P) S. ... Pages in category "Drug-related deaths in India" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
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 .
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
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.
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.
On 25 July 2022, at least 42 people died and more than 97 were hospitalized in a methanol poisoning incident in Gujarat, India. [1] [2] The victims had consumed undiluted methyl alcohol (methanol), assuming it to be alcohol. [3] The spurious liquor was then sold to more than 100 people in the villages of Ahmedabad, Botad and Surendranagar.
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While fatal overdoses are highly associated with drugs such as opiates, cocaine and alcohol, [2] deaths from other drugs such as caffeine are extremely rare. [21] This alphabetical list contains 634 people whose deaths can be reliably sourced to be the result of drug overdose or acute drug intoxication.