This just in: teenagers no longer need to find a cool 21-year-old to buy them alcohol. The era of sneaking beer and liquor out of your parent’s liquor cabinet and blaming it on your sibling is over. The days of ignorant teenagers paying the outrageously inflated prices to 21-year-olds are over.  All of these things are done for because teenagers have started getting drunk on something so available and so cheap per unit alcohol they would be foolish not to buy it. What is this miraculously cheap alcohol and why haven’t you known about it until now? Right now I bet you could ask your neighbor for some, and without a question they would share it with you. You may be pleasantly surprised to find out it is plain and simple hand sanitizer. That’s right Purell, Germ-X, Lysol and a handful of other popular hand sanitizers all utilize ethanol as their active ingredients.  Having taken high school chemistry, I was aware alcohol was used as the primary substance in things like hand sanitizers and disinfectants. I had been led to believe not only was the alcohol used either isopropanol or n-propanol  (not ethanol which causes inebriation) but if you did try to drink it, there were vomit-inducing inactive ingredients. That’s why I was surprised to learn last night teenagers have started chugging 62 percent ethanol hand sanitizers to get drunk and have been having numerous cases of alcohol poisoning. At first I didn’t believe it, so I went to my trusty research source-Wikipedia, where I learned, in fact, ethanol, isopropanol and n-propanol are all possibilities as active ingredients. Not convinced I was wrong, I went and checked the Material Safety Data Sheets of the popular hand sanitizers and was shocked to see nearly every brand had ethanol as the only active ingredient, and the only health hazard listed was “may cause