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Title: INHALANT ABUSE


1
INHALANTABUSE
  • organic solvents, Nitrites,
  • Nitrous Oxide
  • Presented By DDRA/DC001

2
ORGANIC
  • Gasoline or other car products
  • Lighter fluid including charcoal and butane
  • Aerosols spray items paints and compress air
    cleaner, adhesives, air fresheners, hair spray,
    shoe dressing
  • Paint thinners and removers
  • Transparent glues and rubber-cement, air plane
    glues
  • Nail polish and removers
  • Degreasers and cleaning fluids
  • Abuse resulting in chemical burn damaging to the
    eyes, nose and throat areas

3
NITRITES
  • Commonly prescribed for heart conditions
  • Called amyl nitrites or butyl nitrite
  • Abuse can result in high blood pressure resulting
    in strokes or irregular heart conditions that can
    permanently damage the performance of the heart

4
NITROUS OXIDE HELIUM
  • Laughing gas used by dentists and anesthetics.
  • Combination of nitrogen and oxygen to ease pain
    during medical or dental procedures.
  • Commonly misused at parties along with the use of
    Helium as a means to alter your voice to sounding
    differently as being funny
  • Abuse resulting in damage to your vocal cords
    (larynx) prolonged used can permanently damage
    your voice box
  • Upper Respiratory distress and could be fatal for
    asthma's

5
Inhalant Abuse
  • Huffing or inhaling are highly being abused in
    the United States. Readily available in homes.
  • Resent survey from the Office of National Drug
    Control Policy by 8th grade, 29.2 of students
    admit to having used inhalants. (Elementary aged
    students and 11-12 year olds have experimented
    with inhalants).
  • By 12th grade,51.2 of teens experimented with
    inhalants at least once.
  • Inhalant abuse over the past 6 years has been
    linked to 800 deaths. Known term as (SSDS) sudden
    sniffing death syndrome.
  • Other potentials to causing many serious health
    problems.

6
Permanent Damage to your body
  • Psychological disorders like depression and
    suicidal thoughts and even suicide.
  • Permanent personality changes such as extreme
    mood swings
  • Memory and learning disabilities caused by brain
    damage
  • Lung, liver and kidney damage or complete failure
    of these vital organs
  • Limb numbness or paralysis
  • Hearing loss or Vision problems may result in
    Blindness

7
Why Huffing is popular
  • Easily found in your home
  • Inexpensive can be purchased freely at the local
    retailers or supermarkets
  • Not easy to detect as other drug abuse, due to
    this fact these chemicals are not illegal by
    users.
  • Parents and other adults are unaware of the
    increasing popularity of this form of abuse. Yet
    our youth are seeing it on T.V. You Tube which
    portrayed as HARMLESS and FUNNY.

8
Common Products Abused
  • General household chemicals
  • Mixed with Prescription medications yours or
    others and over the counter drugs (OTC)
  • Office and Craft supplies
  • Personal hygiene products
  • Thousand of common household products are being
    used to get high.
  • The average age that adolescents first try this
    form of drug abuse is 11-12.

9
Warning Signs
  • Slurred speech
  • Chemical smell on breath or clothing
  • Paint stains on the body or face
  • Sores around the mouth
  • Red eyes or runny noses not related to medical
    conditions such as colds or allergies
  • Problems in school and sports performance
  • The 3 DS drunk, dizzy or dazed appearance

10
LIFE THREATING Medical Emergency
  • First- time users run the risk of (SSDS) Sudden
    Sniffing Death Syndrome.
  • Abusers may suffer fatal irregularity of
    heartbeat (arrhythmia) or complete heart failure
    (arrest).
  • The risk of SSDS seems to be higher if the abuser
    engages in strenuous physical activity or is
    suddenly startled.

11
Summary of Medical problems
  • Heavy repeated abuse can result in life threating
    problems if not death
  • permanent brain damage
  • respiratory problems.
  • Blindness
  • Organ damage
  • Central Nervous system breakdown

12
REVIEWING
  • Can you answer briefly the following questions.
  • 1-What are Inhalants?
  • 2- Why is this Drug Abuse Popular?
  • 3-What does the term SSDS mean?
  • 4- What are the 3 DS?

13
Conclusion
  • You have only one life and you choose how to
    manage caring for it during your lifetime.
  • Putting any foreign chemicals or substances into
    your body has a potential for permanent damage if
    not fatal results.
  • It only takes one time that could cost you
    serious life threating results, if not death as
    an out come.
  • Like to know more about this topic to share with
    your family go online to www.inhalants.org
  • Increasing Peer pressure by so called friends or
    others, who offer any type of drug abuse as being
    cool, makes you look grown up and it cant kill
    are misleading you.
  • Red Flags should go up that they are not your
    friends. For friends would not put other friends
    in a life and death situation if they truly
    cared.
  • Solutions Being firm in NO means NO, by going
    somewhere else to be free from this type of peer
    pressure may ultimately save your life.
  • Asking your true best friends to leave with you ,
    calling a parent or trusted adult to come and
    pick you up is a responsible and mature choice.
  • Remember to JUST SAY NO !!!!! And be safe and
    smart with your life
  • This is why you must take responsibility for your
    actions and choices within your younger years
    towards a better lifestyles for living a longer
    and happier life.
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