Inhalants

1. Inhalants By Connie, Anna, Irena, Nate, Cathy, & Laura

2. Glue Sniff Huff Poppers Whippets Snappers Rush Rush snappers Whiteout Locker room Climax Nangs Bulbs Gas Chroming Bold Laughing gas Hippie crack Medusa Moon gas Satan’s secret Shoot the breeze Spray Toncho Air blast Bullet Bolt Bullet bolt (isobutyl nitrite) Highball Ames/Amys/Aimies (amyl nitrite) Buzz bomb Dusting Quicksilver (isobutyl nitrite) Snotballs (rubber cement rolled into balls, burned and the fumes are inhaled) Air blast Discorama Hardware Heart-on Hiagra in a bottle Oz Pearls Poor man’s pot Texas shoe shine Thrust Toilet water Nicknames

3. Type of Drug • Inhalants are psychoactive drugs that cause changes in the brain or brain functions and often change moods or behaviors.

4. Drug enters body from: • Inhaling can to nose or mouth (directly & indirectly) • Sniffing • Spraying • Snorting • Inhaling from a plastic bag (bagging) • Huffing (inhalant-soaked rag, sock, or roll of toilet paper in the mouth)

5. Glue Nail polish remover Cleaning fluids Hair spray Gasoline Spray paint White-out fluid Cooking spray Air fresheners Felt-tip markers Dry-cleaning products Detergent/fabric softeners All of these can be categorized as: Volatile solvents - liquids that become gas at room temperature Gases Aerosol sprays Nitrites (the street drugs, any inhalants that use “nitrite” in its name) Drug is used for:

6. Short Term Effects on Body & Mind • It has the same effects as alcohol does • Slurred speech • Inability to coordinate movement • Dizziness • Confusion • Delirium • Nausea • Vomiting • Lightheadedness • Hallucinations • Delusions • Increased heart rate

7. Compulsive use of inhalants Mild withdrawal syndrome Weight loss Muscle weakness Disorientation Inattentiveness Lack of coordination Irritability Depression Drowsiness Headaches Unconsciousness Death Hearing loss Bone marrow damage Sudden sniffing death (heart beats quickly and irregularly, and then suddenly stops (cardiac arrest)) Paleness Liver damage Kidney damage Blood oxygen depletion Heart failure Limb spasms Muscle spasms tremors Nervous system damage Brain damage Hypoxia (lack of oxygen) Myelin damage (myelin is a fatty tissue that protects your nerve fibers) Impair basic actions such as walking and talking Asphyxia Suicide Suffocation Hostility Thirst Long Term Effects on Body & Mind

8. Use of inhalants can affect friends and family both socially and emotionally. Since inhalants impair speech and body movements, you might not be able to communicate with your family or hang out with your friends because you can’t walk normally. This affects them emotionally too because now they have to deal with knowing that you’re a drug addict and have to help you get detoxicated. If your friends and family are strict though, then they’ll never see you in the same way again or cut off their relationship with you.

9. People who frequently abuse inhalants become dependent and addicted on the drug. Toluene, a chemical found in inhalants, increases dopamine (the neurotransmitter that helps control the brain’s reward and pleasure centers) activity in the reward areas of the brain and the long-term disruption of the dopamine system is a way that people become addicted.

10. People start using inhalants because it’s an easy and cheap way to get high without paying too much and because inhalants aren’t illegal since they’re used as everyday household products. Also, some people just do it because they think it’s cool.

11. Thanks for Listening