The U.S. government intentionally adulterated alcohol during Prohibition

[GMantis]

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Now, this was slightly different from our modern policy of enforced adulteration of all non-beverage alcohol (methanol, which is what the article in question is referring to, is denatured even today to discourage consumption of it). Nevertheless, this does seem to justify modern paranoia with regards to our other great modern morality crusade, the "War on Drugs".

Methyl alcohol isn't industrial alcohol and isn't denatured - it's used for denaturing alcohol, being far more poisons than any of the compounds of the list.  Most of those who were poisoned died from methanol (blindness is the telling symptom).
And the citation is not from the article.