INHALANT ABUSE

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INHALANTABUSE

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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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?

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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.