A Stiff Drink ?

[Randy W]

in the SCMP

Stiff drink: Two Chinese firms probed for spiking alcohol with Viagra

Guangxi distillers may have added the impotence treatment drug to their alcohol

 

The Liuzhou Food and Drug Administration said it found that Guikun Alcohol Plant and Deshun Alcohol Plant in the provincial city of Liuzhou were putting sildenafil - more commonly known as Viagra - into three of their baijiu products. Baijiu is a fiery grain liquor that commands high prices in China.

 

Law enforcement officers confiscated 5,357 bottles of the suspect products, 1,124 kg of raw alcohol and a batch of white powder labelled sildenafil, in a case that involved more than 700,000 yuan (HK$872,000), according to a statement that the administration posted on its website on Saturday.

 

The case had been transferred to the police, it said, adding that the baijiu products had all been marketed as having health-preserving qualities.

 

[Mick]

That could really be dangerous for several reasons. First, you are not supposed to drink in excess when taking Viagra and second, you can't take it if you use nitrates of any kind. It can cause the blood pressure to plummet. I have never been able to take any of those "hard-pecker" pills because I wear a nitro patch daily and also have the little sub-lingual tablets that dissolve under the tongue. I have been blessed, I guess, in that I have never needed any of those "wonder drugs." I have a friend who uses them on occasion and he says the work, but give him a terrible headache. I don't know anyone who has had one of those four hour erections they warn you about. I don't drink, but if I visited China this latest spiked drink would be a danger to me because of the nitro.