what it is
Chemicals found in ordinary household or workplace products that people inhale on purpose to get “high.”
What is an Inhalant?
To breathe in air or other gases that are absorbed rapidly into the bloodstream through the lungs and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs.
What is Inhaling?
A mental health disorder characterized by persistently depressed mood or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life that is a side effect of Inhalants.
What is Depression?
The grade in the highest percentile for inhalant use in the past year.
What are 8th graders?
There are no FDA-approved _______ to treat inhalant addiction.
What are medications?
Liquids that become a gas at room temperature. They are found in:
paint thinner, nail polish remover, degreaser, dry-cleaning fluid, gasoline, and contact cement
What are Volatile solvents?
The action of drawing in air audibly through the nose.
What is Sniffing?
The sensation of an urge to vomit.
What is Nausea?
9.0% of this age group have used inhalants in their lifetime.
What are ages 18-25?
The process of medical or psychotherapeutic treatment for dependency on psychoactive substances.
What is drug rehabilitation?
Substances under pressure that are released as a fine spray. They include:
spray paint, hair spray, deodorant spray, vegetable oil sprays, and fabric protector spray
What are Aerosols?
Sniffing or inhaling fumes from substances sprayed or deposited inside a plastic or paper bag.
What is Bagging?
A condition of deteriorated mental function.
What is Dementia?
8.6 percent of this gender use inhalants in 8th grade.
What are females?
A symptom of recovering from inhalants when the combination of physical and mental effects that a person experiences after they stop using or reduce their intake of a substance.
What is Withdrawl?
Household or commercial products, or used in the medical field to provide pain relief. They are found in:
butane lighters, propane tanks, whipped cream dispensers, and refrigerant gases
What are Gases?
From an inhalant-soaked rag stuffed in the mouth; and inhaling from balloons filled with nitrous oxide.
What is Huffing?
Confusion; nausea; slurred speech; lack of coordination; euphoria; dizziness; drowsiness; disinhibition, lightheadedness, hallucinations/delusions; headaches are ...
What are short term effects?
10.6 percent of this race among 8th graders use inhalants
What are Hispanics?
No medication can cure this virus caused by irritation to the sinus’
What is sinusitis?
Often sold in small brown bottles labeled as:
can still be found, sold in small bottles labeled as “video head cleaner,” “room odorizer,” “leather cleaner,” or “liquid aroma.”
What are Nitrites?
Because intoxication lasts only a few minutes, abusers frequently seek to prolong the high by...
What is inhaling repeatedly over the course of several hours?
Liver and kidney damage; bone marrow damage; limb spasms due to nerve damage; brain damage from lack of oxygen that can cause problems with thinking, movement, vision, and hearing are...
What are long term effects?
From 1991-2011 this grade had the lowest inhalant use .
What is 12th grade?
This side effect of inhalation can be treated with IV fluids or oxygen breathing masks.
What is chemical pneumonia?