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Inhalant Abuse

Inhalant abuse is the purposeful concentrating of poisonous gases and vapors to alter one's mood.  This dangerous activity is on the rise in the United States.

Training Information

Resources for Prevention

National Inhalant Prevention Coalition (NIPC)
The NIPC serves as an inhalant referral and information clearinghouse, stimulates media coverage about inhalant issues, develops informational materials, produces ViewPoint (a quarterly newsletter), provides training and technical assistance and leads a week-long national grass roots inhalant education awareness campaign.

ME, NH, & VT Inhalant Abuse Online Training for Adults
Click on your state and educate yourself before your kids do!  Free, at-your-fingertips, easy 15-minute adult online training on the dangers, signs and symptoms of inhalant abuse. 

New England Inhalant Abuse Prevention Coalition (NEIAPC)
The NEIAPC is dedicated to reducing the impact of inhalant abuse among children and youth.  This is done by education parents and youth-serving professionals to apply best practices inhalant abuse prevention.

Alliance for Consumer Education (ACE)
ACE's inhalant abuse prevention program includes a multi-faceted media campaign and outreach to parents.  The program is designed to provide parents with high quality and practical information about inhalant abuse so they can include it in their substance abuse discussion with their children.

NH Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Clearinghouse and Lending Library
The Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Clearinghouse and Lending Library houses a large inventory of informational resources on alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, such as brochures, factsheets, teaching and audio/visual tools.  The resources cover a wide variety of subjects on prevention, treatment and recovery.

Resources for Parents/Adults

Partnership For Drug-Free America
The Partnership for a Drug-Free America created Parent's Guide to Inhalants Prevention to help parents seeking specific information guidance and resources about inhalants.

ME, NH, & VT Inhalant Abuse Online Training for Adults
Click on your state and educate yourself before your kids do!  Free, at-your-fingertips, easy 15-minute adult online training on the dangers, signs and symptoms of inhalant abuse.

Northern New England Poison Center 1-800-222-1222

  • Brochure - What Every Parent Needs to Know About Inhalant Abuse
  • Adult Inhalant Abuse Prevention Kit.  This kit is intended for adults who work with youth (parents, teachers, etc.) and includes brochures, posters, fact sheets, poison stickers, presentations props (such as empty aerosol and solvent-based containers), videos/DVDs and a CD with PowerPoint Presentations.

Resources for Schools

Mind Over Matter - Inhalants
This series is designed to encourage young people in grades five through nine to learn about the effects of drug abuse on the body and the brain.

Freevibe
Office of National Drug Control Policy's website where youth can learn about drugs and share their thoughts.

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for Teens - The Science Behind Drug Abuse
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a component of the National Institutes of Heath (NIH), created this Web site to educate adolescents ages 11 through 15 (as well as their parents and teachers) on the science behind drug abuse. Elements such as animated illustrations, quizzes, and games are used throughout the site to clarify concepts, test the visitor's knowledge, and make learning fun through interaction.

Heads Up: Real News About Drugs and Your Body
A collection of articles design to teach students about the repercussions of drug use.  For grades 6-10.

  • Year 1 Compilation - Close up: Inhalants. Pain meets poison.
  • Year 2 Skill Book - Top 10 Things You Need to Know About Inhalants
  • Year 3 Compilation - Abuse of Inhalants and Prescription Drugs: Real Dangers for Teens
  • Year 4 Compilation - Poison Vapors: The Truth About Inhalants
  • Poster - Drugs and the Body - It Isn't Pretty
  • Poster: You Can't Sniff Away Your Sorrows

Keeping the Artist Safe
On this page, the National Institute of Health has a collection of websites that explain the hazards of arts and crafts materials.

Northern New England Poison Center 1-800-222-1222  

  • Middle School Classroom Inhalant Abuse Prevention Kit - This kit is intended for students in fifth through eighth grade.  The kit includes brochures, posters, poison stickers, educational video and teacher's guide.
  • Poster - "Some things are great to take in. Others Aren't.  Inhaling fumes and vapors can poison your body."
  • Poster - "All questions about poisons are smart questions."
  • Teacher Fact Sheet - What You Can Do About Inhalant Abuse
  • School Inhalant Abuse Prevention Assessment Form
  • Solvent-Based Products and Prevention Strategies


Resources for Health Care Professionals

American Family Physician
A Peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Family Physicians (September 1, 2003)

Northern New England Poison Center 1-800-222-1222

  • Emergency Responder Fact Sheet - Special Considerations for Law Enforcement & Emergency Medical Personnel
  • Action Stat: Propellant Inhalation (appeared in Nursing, October 2001, Volume 31, Number 10, Page 14)

Inhalant Abuse - Nursing Implications
Online 3-hour CEU course


References

Inhalant Abuse
Pediatrics. 2007;119:1009-1017
Williams J, Storck M and the Committee on Substance Abuse and Committee on Native American Child Health

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Office of National Drug Control Policy - Drug Facts - Inhalants


Data

Monitoring the Future Drug Abuse Press Release with Data

Monitoring the future is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults.

New Hampshire Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)
YRBS assists educators and health professionals in determining the prevalence of health-risk behaviors as self reported by New Hampshire youth.

DASIS Report - Adolescent Admissions Reporting on Inhalants: 2006 Based on SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), adolescents aged 12 to 17 accounted for 8% of admissions to substance abuse treatment in 2006; however, they represent 48% of all admissions reporting inhalants.

CESAR FAX - More Than One-Half a Million Adolescents Use Inhalants for the First Time Each Year; Commonly Available Products Most Likely to Be Used An annual average of 593,000 adolescents ages 12 to 17 use inhalants for the first time each year, according to combined data from the 2002 to 2006 National Household Survey on Drug Use and Health.

NSDUH Report - Inhalant Abuse across the Adolescent Years  - Inhalant usage in adolescents aged 12 - 17.

 

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