Inhalents - Information

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Inhalents: Defined, Inhalants are breathable chemical vapors that produce psychoactive (mind-altering) effects. A variety of products commonplace in the home and in the workplace contain substances that can be inhaled.<Read More>

Articles

Advocates Help Change Building Code Laws to Prevent Freon Huffing (CADCA, Oct. 9, 2008)
In an effort to prevent freon huffing, from now on all new buildings will be required to have locking caps on air conditioning units. <Read More>

Study Links Inhalant Use to Depression (CADCA, Sept. 18, 2008)
Researchers found that those with a past-year major depressive episode (MDE) were more than three times as likely as their counterparts with no past-year MDE to start using inhalants. <Read More>

Nebraska Leaders targeting Middle Schoolers to prevent inhalent abuse
Research has shown that while illicit drug use is down overall, among middle school students, inhalants remain a serious problem, with 3.4 percent of 12 year-olds and 4.8 percent of 13 year-olds reporting inhalant use in 2006. In Nebraska, the Central Nebraska Council on Alcoholism and Addiction is helping to tackle this trend by training middle school youth on how to make healthy choices. Read more.

Grieving parents tell what statistics don’t: Reports show teens abusing inhalants (PD, March 18, 2005)

Dusting  “ I found out that using Dust Off is being done mostly by kids ages 9 through 15. They even have a name for it. It's called dusting. A take off from the Dust Off name. It gives them a slight high for about 10 seconds. It makes them dizzy.”