CDC Reports Teen Deaths From Drinking Racing Fuel.

CBS News  (6/9, Welch) reports, “Health officials are warning about the dangers of a potentially deadly homemade concoction of racing fuel and soft drinks some teens are consuming to get drunk.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report documenting the “deaths of two Tennessee adolescents who ingested the mixture at a party.” According the Tennessee Poison Center, which conducted the first investigation of the deaths in January, “the teens mixed methanol with Mountain Dew to make a lethal concoction known as Dewshine.” CBS News reports “these are the first reported deaths in the US associated with drinking this racing fuel mixture.”