University of Tennessee Fraternity Suspended For ‘Butt Chugging’

Butt chugging is in the news because a 20-year-old University of Tennessee student was rushed to the hospital with alcohol poisoning after he and his fellow frat members had allegedly conducted “alcohol enemas." That involved them pouring wine through a rubber tube inserted into their rectums.

“The abundance of capillaries and blood vessels [in the rectum] greatly heightens the level and speed of the alcohol entering the blood stream as it bypasses the filtering by the liver,” police spokesman Darrell DeBusk said in a statement.

Alexander Broughton's blood alcohol level was "well over" 0.40 percent when he was brought to the hospital. His frat, Pi Kappa Alpha, has been suspended for 30 days while the incident is investigated.