Inhalants

History:

• Inhalants was used in the history back then in Ancient Time in Africa And the Middle east, Asia.
• In the Early 1800's, it was used as anesthetics used commonly as intoxicants.
• It was a cheap substitute for alcohol and around 1799 it coined to the word "Laughing Gas" from a British Scientist.
• Around the US in 1920, there is Ether which was used as an recreational drug.
• In the 1940's was solvents, primarily gasoline, became popular
• Abuse of the Drug have increased in the 1950's or the Early Cold War Era
• It spread around the 1960's
• In the more recent years, glue and glass sniffing has become widespread problem.

Nitrites

Catergory

• Nitrous oxide

Inhalants

Nicknames

• Laughing gas (nitrous oxide), Snappers (amyl nitrite), Poppers (amyl nitrite and butyl nitrite), Whippets (fluorinated hydrocarbons), Bold (nitrites), and Rush (nitrites)

How is being used

• Inhaling and/or sniffing it

Effects

• Inhalants use can cause damage to the heart, kidneys, brain, liver, bone marrow and other organs. Inhalants starve the body of oxygen and force the heart to beat irregularly and more rapidly. Users can experience nausea and nosebleeds and lose their sense of hearing or smell.

Dangers

• dangerous chemical vapors produced by a range of common, but highly toxic, substances. When inhaled, these chemicals can cause damaging, mind-altering effects and sudden death. The three main types of inhalants are: solvents, gases and nitrates.

Statistics

• Focusing on the United States of America
• A US survey, combining data from 2002 to 2006, found that an annual average of 593,000 teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants for the first time in the year before they took the survey.

Interesting Facts

• "Laughing Gas"
• Inhalants are chemicals found in ordinary household or workplace products that people inhale on purpose to get “high.”
• Inhalants can be found around the house,

Credit to the Resource:

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USMC-07664.jpg "Image 1", 2012
• https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/inhalants "Inhalants", 2017
• www.inhalantaddictiontreatment.com/origins-of-inhalants "Origin of Inhalants", 2017
• http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/inhalants.html "What are Inhalants" 2006-2017
• http://www.thegooddrugsguide.com
• https://teens.drugabuse.gov/drug-facts/inhalants "What are Inhalants?", 2017
• https://ppaccentral.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/inhalants.jpg?w=908 "Image 4", 2016
• https://d14rmgtrwzf5a.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/aerosole_can_nozzl... "Image 2", 2017
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Nitrous-oxide-3D-vdW.pn... "Image 3", 2007
• www.pamf.org/parenting-teens/drugs-alcohol/drugs/inhalants.html "Teens & Inhalants", 2015

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