Pacific Standard March-April 2013 Cover

Standing in Alcohol Won’t Get You Drunk

Sorry, folks. It turns out you can't get drunk by submerging your feet in alcohol. The belief is widespread in Denmark, where, apparently, there's not much to do during those long winter nights but experiment with different, and frankly bizarre, ways of inviting alcohol into your pores. But according to research in the December issue of the British Medical Journal, there's really no point to stomping around in vats of alcohol — unless you're making wine, of course. The study was led by Dr. Peter Lommer Kristensen from Denmark's Hillerød Hospital, who recruited three adult volunteers to ... Read More