Inhalants 

Drug Classification: Inhalants

Slang Terms: poppers, whippets, laughing gas, rush, huffing

What It Looks Like & How It’s Taken: Inhalants can be a multitude of household goods, amyl nitrite, butyl nitrite, or nitrous oxide. All are inhaled. Most are first sprayed into a bag, which goes around the mouth and nose.

Inhalants - What It Looks Like & How It’s Taken

Effects: Users get a quick, giddy head rush. Hallucinations and numb extremities often follow.

After/Side Effects: Users feel slightly stimulated and uninhibited which only lasts a few minutes and is followed by a major headache. Suffocation and sudden death can occur even after the first time.

Paraphernalia Associated with Use: Bags, aerosol cans, various household products.

Short Term Consequences of Use: High concentrations of inhalants can cause death by suffocation. They displace oxygen in the lungs and then in the central nervous system so that breathing stops. “Sniffing highly concentrated amounts of the chemicals in solvents or aerosol sprays can directly induce heart failure and death”. www.freevibe.com

Long Term Consequences of Use: Permanent damage associated with using inhalants includes hearing loss, limb spasms, bone marrow deficiency and damage to the brain and/or central nervous system.

Facts & Statistics:
Deliberately inhaling from an attached paper or plastic bad or in a closed area greatly increases the chances of suffocation.

Chronic or long term abusers are among the hardest to treat and they many experience multiple psychological and social problems.

Some young people may use inhalants are a cheap, accessible alternative for alcohol or other drugs.

Sources:
http://www.freevibe.com 

http://165.112.78.61/Infofax/inhalants.html

http://www.stopdrugs.org/inhalants.html