What Types of Products Are Abused as Inhalants?
Inhalants are commonly known as Glue, Kick, Bang, Sniff, Huff, Poppers, Whippets, and Texas Shoeshine.
Chance are most of these substances are right there in your kitchen,garage or pantry. If I try it just one time to see what if might do to my body, it won't hurt..............or will it?
Magic question~ do you want to find out?
Inhalants generally fall into the following categories:
Volatile solvents—liquids that vaporize at room temperature
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Industrial or household products, including paint thinners or
removers, degreasers, dry-cleaning fluids, gasoline, and lighter fluid
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Art or office supply solvents, including correction fluids, felt-tip marker fluid, electronic contact cleaners, and glue
Aerosols—sprays that contain propellants and solvents
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Household aerosol propellants in items such as spray paints, hair or
deodorant sprays, fabric protector sprays, aerosol computer cleaning
products, and vegetable oil sprays
Gases—found in household or commercial products and used as medical anesthetics
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Household or commercial products, including butane lighters and
propane tanks, whipped cream aerosols or dispensers (whippets), and
refrigerant gases
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Medical anesthetics, such as ether, chloroform, halothane, and nitrous oxide (“laughing gas”)
Nitrites—a special class of inhalants that are used primarily as sexual enhancers
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Organic nitrites are volatiles that include cyclohexyl, butyl, and
amyl nitrites, commonly known as “poppers.” Amyl nitrite is still used
in certain diagnostic medical procedures. When marketed for illicit use,
organic nitrites are often sold in small brown bottles labeled as
“video head cleaner,” “room odorizer,” “leather cleaner,” or “liquid
aroma.”
These various products contain a wide range of chemicals such as—
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toluene (spray paints, rubber cement, gasoline),
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chlorinated hydrocarbons (dry-cleaning chemicals, correction fluids),
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hexane (glues, gasoline),
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benzene (gasoline),
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methylene chloride (varnish removers, paint thinners),
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butane (cigarette lighter refills, air fresheners), and
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nitrous oxide (whipped cream dispensers, gas cylinders).
How Do Inhalants Affect the Brain?
The effects of inhalants are similar to those of alcohol, including
slurred speech, lack of coordination, euphoria, and dizziness. Inhalant
abusers may also experience lightheadedness, hallucinations, and
delusions. With repeated inhalations, many users feel less inhibited and
less in control. Some may feel drowsy for several hours and experience a
lingering headache. Chemicals found in different types of inhaled
products may produce a variety of additional effects, such as confusion,
nausea, or vomiting.
By displacing air in the lungs, inhalants deprive the body of oxygen,
a condition known as hypoxia. Hypoxia can damage cells throughout the
body, but the cells of the brain are especially sensitive to it. The
symptoms of brain hypoxia vary according to which regions of the brain
are affected: for example, the hippocampus helps control memory, so
someone who repeatedly uses inhalants may lose the ability to learn new
things or may have a hard time carrying on simple conversations.
Long-term inhalant abuse can also break down myelin, a fatty tissue
that surrounds and protects some nerve fibers. Myelin helps nerve fibers
carry their messages quickly and efficiently, and when damaged, can
lead to muscle spasms and tremors or even permanent difficulty with
basic actions such as walking, bending, and talking.
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Sniffing highly concentrated amounts of the chemicals in solvents or
aerosol sprays can directly induce heart failure and death within
minutes of a session of repeated inhalation. This syndrome, known as
“sudden sniffing death,” can result from a single session of inhalant
use by an otherwise healthy young person. Sudden sniffing death is
particularly associated with the abuse of butane, propane, and chemicals
in aerosols.
Sudden Death can occur the first time you try inhalants! or the 100th time you try them, it's not choosy. All your luck it will be your first time!
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