Truth About Inhalants
By: Adam and Walt
History
Inhaling fumes from chemicals started in ancient times in Egypt, Babylonia, India and China. They used it to alter their consciousness, or as a religious ceremony. It was also practiced by priestesses to alter their consciousness an the Oracle of Delphi in ancient Greece. Early in the 1800s nitrous oxide, ether and chloroform were used. It was used in Europe and the U.S. for recreation. Use of inhalants were used all through the 1900s and now glue, gas and spray paint sniffing is used in many places around the world from New Zealand to Canada.
Harmful Effects on the Body
Started in Ancient Greece
Types of Inhalants
What is it? How are they used?
Inhalants are...
Inhalants are the vapors from toxic substances. There are more than one thousand household and other common products and chemicals that can be abused as inhalants. The most common inhalants shoe polish, glue, toluene, gasoline, and lighter fluid.
Inhalants are used by...
Street Names and Effects
Important Facts
2. 22.9 million Americans have experimented with inhalants.
3. 22% of the people who died from sudden sniffing syndrome didn't have any prior use of the drugs.
4. By the time students in the U.S. reach 8th grade 1 out of every 5 students will have used an inhalant.
5. In Karachi Pakistan 80%-90% of street kids sniff glue or solvents.
6. You can die from the first time you use inhalants.