Alcohol With Out Liquid (AWOL) has been launched in East Anglia at Bury St Edmunds nightclub, Club NRG, according to this story in the East Anglian Daily Times. AWOL mixes alcohol fumes with oxygen in a special 'machine', for users to inhale. Local public health professionals and substance misuse experts are said to be 'outraged'.
More info about AWOL here.
Manufacturer's press release quoting the Department of Health's Judith Hind as saying "We are not aware of any current evidence to suggest that use of the AWOL machine, in accordance with your advice and instructions, poses particular risks to the user over and above the risks that may be posed by consuming an equivalent amount of alcohol in an equivalent time period in a more traditional way" here.
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