![[VIDEO] Wife douses husband with beer at Wrigley Field](http://cdn.ph.upi.com/sblc/i/8801369105285/13690727911538/3/VIDEO-Wife-douses-husband-with-beer-at-Wrigley-Field.jpg "[VIDEO] Wife douses husband with beer at Wrigley Field")
![[VIDEO] David Beckham cries during last game of his career](http://cdn.ph.upi.com/sblc/8801369105285/5/VIDEO-David-Beckham-cries-during-last-game-of-his-career.jpg "[VIDEO] David Beckham cries during last game of his career")
![[VIDEO] Amy Poehler back on 'SNL' for 'Weekend Update' segment targeting IRS](http://cdn.ph.upi.com/sblc/i/8801369105285/13690077384778/7/VIDEO-Amy-Poehler-back-on-SNL-for-Weekend-Update-segment-targeting-IRS.jpg "[VIDEO] Amy Poehler back on 'SNL' for 'Weekend Update' segment targeting IRS")
![[PHOTOS] 2013 Celebrity Couples](http://cdn.ph.upi.com/sblc/8801369105285/8/PHOTOS-2013-Celebrity-Couples.jpg "[PHOTOS] 2013 Celebrity Couples")
1.
See Taylor Swift's disgusted reaction to Justin Bieber-Selena Gomez backstage kiss
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- An advocacy group in Canada is calling for government funding to provide alcoholics with free alcohol to curb the drinking of hand sanitizer and mouthwash.
The proposal is from Vancouver's Eastside Illicit Drinkers Group for Education, which was formed in July and received a $52,000 grant to research alcohol maintenance programs in British Columbia.
Spokesman Rob Morgan said he is among thousands of alcoholics who buy and drink hand sanitizer stolen from hospitals, and also drink mouthwash or rubbing alcohol, The (Vancouver) Province reported.
Vancouver already has centers where heroin addicts can inject with safe syringes and Morgan said the time has come to give the same protection to alcoholics,
"It would be members-only because once word gets out it is free alcohol everyone that just wants a free drink would show up," he told the newspaper.
Preliminary estimates show it would cost about $350 per month per drinker, but the group maintains that would be cheaper than the costs of emergency medical treatment for people drinking unsafe alcohol.
A proposed drinker's lounge would be stocked with vodka, sherry and high-alcohol beer, Morgan said.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Additional World News Stories | |
NEW YORK, May 21 (UPI) --
Former first daughter Caroline Kennedy served on a New York jury that acquitted a Harlem man of selling drugs to an undercover police officer.
|
NAPLES, Fla., May 21 (UPI) --
The 44-year-old daughter of broadcast journalist Barbara Walters has been arrested for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol, Florida police said.
|
WASHINGTON, May 21 (UPI) --
A member of Congress who led an investigation into the BP oil spill in 2010 expressed outrage that a judge threw out a charge against a former BP executive.
|
DAKAR, Senegal, May 21 (UPI) --
A California couple taking a trip to Dakar, Senegal, said Turkish Airlines instead sent them nearly 7,000 miles off-course to Dhaka, Bangladesh.
|
| Stories | Photos | Comments |
View Caption
