Inhalant Catagories
Health Effects
Type of Inhalants
Common Street Names
Methods of Inhaling
100
Liquids that vaporize at room temperature.
What are Volatile solvents?
100
The displacement of air in the longs, depriving the body of oxygen.
What is Hypoxia?
100
Another name for gasoline, causes bone marrow damage.
What is Benzene?
100
Nitrous oxide.
What is Laughing gas?
100
To inhale fumes from containers directly into nose or mouth.
What is Sniffing?
200
Sprays that contain propellants and solvents.
What are Aerosols?
200
The part of the brain that is damaged by repetitive use of inhalants, causing the loss of ability to learn new things.
What is Hippocampus?
200
Glue, cause nerve damage throughout the brain and spinal cord.
What is Hexane?
200
Amyl nitrite.
What are snappers?
200
Inhale fumes from plastic or paper bag.
What is Bagging?
300
Found in household products and used as medical anesthetics.
What are Gases?
300
A fatty tissue that surrounds some nerve fibers that breaks down due to long-term inhalant abuse.
What is Myelin?
300
Spray paint or Fingernail polish, causes hearing loss and damage to the brain.
What is Toluene?
300
Flourinated hydrocarbons, found in whipped cream dispensers.
What are whippets?
300
Inhale soaked rag stuffed in the mouth.
What is Huffing?
400
A special class of inhalants that is used primarily as a sexual enhancers.
What are Nitrites?
400
Syndrome associated with the abusive inhalant of butane, propane, and chemicals in aerosols.
What is Sudden Sniffing Death?
400
Cleaning fluid or Correction fluid leading to loss of hearing.
What is Trichloroethylene?
400
Nitrites.
What is "bold" or "rush"?
400
Aerosols directly into the nose or mouth.
What is Spraying?
500
A diverse group of volatile substances whose chemical vapors can produce mind-altering effects.
What are Inhalants?
500
Harmful affects from inhalants that cause permanent harm.
What is Irreversible Damage?
500
Dust-off, which causes irregular heart rhythms.
What is Difluoroethane?
500
Butal nitrite and amyl nitrite.
What are Poppers?
500
The act of administering a drug by nasal or oral respiration.
What is Inhalation?
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