Street Names

• Rush
  
• Poppers
  
• Climax
  
  Description
  Inhalants are common household and workplace substances that are sniffed or huffed to give the user an immediate head rush or high. They include a diverse group of chemicals that are found in consumer products such as aerosols plastic cement, fingernail polish remover, lighter fluid, hair spray, insecticides and cleaning solvents.
  
  
  Sniffing highly concentrated amounts of the chemicals in solvents or aerosol sprays can directly induce heart failure and death. High concentrations of inhalants also cause death from suffocation by displacing oxygen in the lungs and then in the central nervous system so that breathing stops.
  
  
  People who use inhalants get a quick, giddy head rush. They are cheap and or readily available making them an easy choice for those who use them. Users feel slightly stimulated and uninhibited, but within a minute or two, a major headache comes on (the first indication that this is a bad idea). Hallucinations and numb hands and feet are often part of the package. Suffocation and sudden death can occur even on the first time.
  
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  NIDA Research Identifies Factors Related to Inhalant Abuse, Addiction 

  Recently CBS Evening News with Dan Rather ran a feature on inhalant abuse. The segment features a Mom who lost her son because of a bad choice he made, a young man in treatment for inhalant abuse at Fairbanks Hospital, Indianapolis, IN and the NIPC. The segment also features a Partnership for a Drug-Free America news release which revealed inhalant use increases of 18 percent among 8th graders and a startling 44 percent among 6th graders. The video clip of this segment provides an excellent overview of the public health threat of inhalant abuse. Email us with your comments about the segment. Click on the links below to see the video clips in either Real Video or Windows Media versions:
  
   Real Video:
  http://video.cgi.cbsnews.com/video/video.pl?url=/media/2004/06/01/video620644.rm

     Windows Media:
  http://video.cgi.cbsnews.com/video/video.pl?url=/media/2004/06/01/video620644.wmv

  NIPC has been responding to an increasing number of callers looking for facilities that treat youth and/or adult inhalant addicts. If you know of any center throughout the country that offers these services, please call NIPC at 800/269 - 4237 or e-mail the information. General information about treatment facilities in your area can be found at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment's treatment finder site.