I think you have to drink quite a bit of that stuff for it to be fatal.
It used to be quite common 50 years ago for those on the skids to partake of a bit of meths and it had no immediate effects in small amounts but you eventually went blind if you kept at it.
Methylated spirits is about 96% ethanol which is the stuff you can drink but thy de-nature it with 4% methanol, which you can't drink. You can't distil it out because the two have roughly the same boiling point.
The problem is in places like that, they don't seem to follow up the pricks who put it in the drinks with proper penalties. It really is close to murder when they know some people will drink it until they are totally rotten.