The latest craze in college campuses is called “eyeballing” – holding a bottle of vodka up to your face and bathing your eye in alcohol. The fad started in England and is reportedly moving onto US campuses and to LasVegas. According to a story in the UK’s Daily Mail, ” Devotees claim that ‘vodka eyeballing’ induces drunkenness faster than drinking it can, because it passes easily through the mucous membrane and enters the bloodstream directly through veins at the back of the eye ” But experts are skeptical noting that the participants, often highly competitive athletes, are likely already drunk. Experts in emergency medicine at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, say that 80 proof vodka … 40 per cent pure ethanol, put in the eye would cause inflammation and clotting of the blood vessels — so very little alcohol would be absorbed. There appears to be significant danger to the long term health of the eye. Beyond abusing eyeballs, we also continue our discussion of increases in the use of purported incenses, bath salts and deodorants, for their marijuana or cocaine-like qualities. these substance are often much more potent than pot or coke, and legal – at least until states ban them. These are actually a new breed of designer drugs, multiplying at a significant rate and raising new public health issues.