What are Inhalants and their Effects?
Inhalants are ordinary household products that are inhaled or sniffed to achieve a high or sense of euphoria. The current market holds over 1,400 household products that can be misused as inhalants.

Examples of products abused include model nail polish remover, airplane glue, cleaning fluids, hair spray, gasoline, spray paint, fabric protector, air conditioner fluid, and cooking spray. These products are sniffed, snorted, inhaled from a plastic bag, or huffed by soaking the inhalant in a rag and put in the mouth to achieve a high. Inhalants can also be sniffed directly from the container.

Improper administration of inhalants can lead to death or injury. One major risk is hypoxia, which occurs due to inhaling fumes from a plastic bag, or from using proper equipment but not adding oxygen. When a gas that was stored under high pressure is released, it cools abruptly and can cause frostbite if it is inhaled directly from the container.

Solvents have many potential risks in common, including pneumonia and cardiac arrest or failure. Inhaling some solvents can cause hearing loss, limb spasms, and damage to the central nervous system and brain. Serious effects include liver and kidney damage and blood-oxygen depletion. Death from inhalants is generally caused by a very high concentration of fumes. Deliberately inhaling solvents from an attached paper or plastic bag or in a closed area greatly increases the chances of suffocation. Brain damage is typically seen with chronic long-term use as opposed to short-term exposure

Overview:
Inhalants are chemical vapors that, when inhaled, cut off the brain’s supply of oxygen, producing psychoactive effects. These effects vary greatly, including depressant effects and stimulation.

Appearance:
Volatile Solvents are liquids that vaporize when exposed to air at room temperature. They are found in numerous household cleaning products and
industrial items.

Aerosols are sprays that contain solvents and propellants. They include spray-paint and various other types of sprays including deodorant and hairsprays, vegetable oil cooking sprays, and static cling sprays.

Gases include those used in household and commercial products as well as medical anesthetics. Medical anesthetic gases include ether, chloroform, and nitrous oxide, the most abused of these gases.

Nitrites do not act directly on the central nervous system like most other inhalants; they primarily act to dilate blood vessels and relax the muscles.

Street Names:

• Nitrous Oxide – Laughing Gas, Whippets, Hippie Crack, Buzz Bomb
• Amyl Nitrate – Poppers, Boppers, Ames, Amies, Amys, Pearls
• Isobutyl Nitrate – Poppers, Quicksilver, Rush, Snappers, Thrust, Locker Room,
• Aroma of Men, Bullet, Bolt, Climax, Hardware
• Using inhalants – Bagging, Glading, Huffing, Snorting 
• Inhalant User – Airhead, Bagger, Huffer
• Cracker – Tool used to open a canister of nitrous oxid

Routes of Administration
Inhalants may be sniffed directly from an open container or “huffed” from a rag soaked
in the substance and held to the face. In addition, the open container or soaked rag can be
placed in a bag where the vapors become concentrated before being inhaled.

Short - Term Effects

• increased heart rate
• hallucinations or delusions
• losing feeling or consciousness
• nausea and vomiting
• loss of coordination
• slurred speech

Long - Term Effects

• brain damage (toxic chemicals may make people become slow or clumsy, have trouble solving problems or planning ahead, suffer from memory loss, or become unable to learn new things)
• muscle weakness
• depression
• headaches and nosebleeds
• loss of sense of smell or hearing

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