Inhalants such as aerosol computer cleaners, glue, hair sprays, paint solvents and gasoline are used by many pre-teens to get high. It is more common for 12-year-olds to get high from inhalants rather than other drugs such as marijuana, cocaine and hallucinogens. According to HealthDay.com, more 12-year-olds have used inhalants to get high than all these other drugs combined. These inhalants can be deadly, yet almost seven percent of 12-year-olds say they have sniffed inhalants to get high. “Huffing” or sniffing these drugs can cause sudden death from cardiac arrest, and people who use these products to get high take the risk of getting addicted.
“Huffing” these inhalants can lead people down a destructive path. Ashley Upchurch, a 17-year-old recovering inhalant abuser “said the habit can take a debilitating toll,” reports HealthDay.com. “Inhalants were a cheap, legal, and an intense high that would also enhance the feeling I would get from other drugs…These highs nearly destroyed my life,” said Upchurch.
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