Researchers complete first human trial on viability of enteral ventilation

I really expected this to be overblown clickbait, but the article delivers on the title about as well as it could. I have seen many more breathless articles on treatments that weren't already conducting human safety trials as well as having animal effectiveness trials concluded.

And yeah, it turns out that mammals can absorb oxygen through their butts. Weird

Not really. Said tissues are well vascularized and therefore lend themselves to oxygen exchange. It’s just that the lungs are especially efficient for this.

Supposedly end stage alcoholics will give themselves alcohol enemas to more readily absorb the alcohol. More direct exposure to the veins.

Which sounds like a fake urban legend, but I would never discount want an addict is capable of doing.

it pretty common. a lot of people in my high school did this, or froze beer and inserted it to get rapidly wasted. the other classic is the tampon soaked in vodka

most of this was just done because drinks were too expensive or hard to get for high schoolers and they had to optimise their alcohol supplies

> froze beer and inserted it to get rapidly wasted

Wow. TIL...

Don't treat an anecdote on the Internet like it actually happened. There have been people posting that they had friends of friends in college do this for twenty years. OP never did it but it definitely happened.

In this case it's high schoolers, half of whom most likely have no sexual experience but are fully willing to explore their anal cavity, having access to alcohol but not that much access.

They can get drunk off small amounts of alcohol, but it's such a small ration that they are freezing and destroying their limited amount of beer (which most high schoolers hate) to shove up their butts, to get drunk slightly faster? How much frozen beer can one butt fit? Is it really that much better than holding your nose and pounding it in front of your friends? Are high schoolers really going to parties with beer in their butts to maybe get a buzz of two beers from one butt beer because they only have access to one twelve pack, instead of just telling everyone how they are so wasted instead?