In an ethyl coma after a single bobbin

Photo Antoine Lacroix
Four Loko, an alcoholic beverage to fruit that has a content of 11.9% alcohol.

Jean Houle

Monday, 23 October 2017 18:55

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SAGUENAY | A mother of Saguenay is launching a cry of warning about the drink Four Loko, which is very popular among teenagers and young adults.

His daughter was found in an ethyl coma after drinking a single soda can.

Four Loko is a fruity drink, with 11.9 % alcohol, sold in a can of 568 millilitres. A simple bobbin has ruined the party of the school year for three students of the UNIVERSITY, the same evening, at the beginning of September.

“There were three students from the UNIVERSITY to the er that night. They were all convinced of having taken the GHB, but the paramedic told me that it was the Four Loko, that he and his colleagues were accustomed to see.”

The mother of the young woman of 20, who prefers to remain anonymous, had spoken to her daughter at 22 h, this evening in September. Everything was going well. It was found at the hospital’s emergency department three hours later, ethyl coma.

“She was unable to stand, she was vomiting. It has taken a bag of saline and a half before she regains consciousness, she can talk to us. She told us that she felt trapped in her body.”

The mother of a family calls for the vigilance of the parents. Her daughter has really feared the worst.

“When she woke up, she told me: “Mom, I really had a fear of dying.

The fruity character to the extreme of the drink disguises the taste of alcohol. The purpose of manufacturers such as Four Loko is to appeal to a younger audience. In the case of consumption of fast, the effect of the alcohol knocks him out.

“It is so sweet that no one enjoys it not as a wine, note Luc Brouillette, of the Centre for rehabilitation of the CIUSSS, in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean. It is more dangerous than a bottle of alcohol from the ordinary.”

These products are very vendors, but should rather only be offered by the SAQ?

“We sell a legal product, and soon will be selling, may be of the drug, replied Jacques Falardeau Group Saga, which oversees the chain of convenience stores Sagamie. If the decision is taken to withdraw the product, but that the competitor does not, it hurts us the same.”

The chain of 67 branches in Quebec is taking the matter seriously. Its customers will be warned.

“We will train our employees and issue a written warning. The technology allows us to do so.”