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Sat Sep 29, 2012, 02:54 PM Sep 2012

Students, Experts Recoil at Alcohol Enema Case [View all]


By ERIK SCHELZIG Associated Press
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. September 29, 2012 (AP)

Before an unruly Tennessee party ended with a student hospitalized for a dangerously high blood alcohol level, most people had probably never heard of alcohol enemas.

Thanks to the drunken exploits of a fraternity at the University of Tennessee, the bizarre way of getting drunk is giving parents, administrators and health care workers a new fear.

When Alexander "Xander" Broughton, 20, was delivered to the hospital after midnight on Sept. 22, his blood alcohol level was measured at 0.448 percent — nearly six times the intoxication that defines drunken driving in the state. Injuries to his rectum led hospital officials to fear he had been sodomized.

Police documents show that when an officer interviewed a fellow fraternity member about what happened, the student said the injuries had been caused by an alcohol enema ...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/students-experts-recoil-alcohol-enema-case-17355245
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