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7 million had used inhalants and 11. 5 million had tried ecstasy. (North County Times)
Does Your Co-Worker Get High? Jul 17, 2007
Illegal drugs were defined in the survey as use of marijuana/hashish, cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, or inhalants, or prescription psychotherapeutics used non-medicinally. Heavy alcohol use was defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on five or more days in the past 30 days. (Click2Houston, TX)
Prince George School Board revises student substance abuse policy Jul 11, 2007
Previous punishments for the first possession of alcohol, controlled substances, illegal drugs or inhalants was 20 days suspension that could be reduced to 15 days upon successful completion of a substance abuse program. The case also could be referred for further punishment. (Petersburg Progress Index, VA)
Makers of aerosol cleaners reformulate to fight huffing Jul 9, 2007
" Culp has dedicated herself to educating legislators, introducing prevention programs in schools and getting "Aaron's law" passed in Wisconsin. As is the case with a similar law in Minnesota, Aaron's law makes it illegal to knowingly abuse inhalants or to sell aerosol chemicals to minors in Wisconsin. As a tribute to her son, Culp still buys newspaper ads three times a year that contain his photo, the story of his death and a warning about product inhalation. At the time "we knew nothing about... (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
More of this story Jul 3, 2007
The state Senate passed a bill in March that expanded the definition of rug in the driving while ability impaired by drugs law to include inhalants and glue. Unfortunately, it died in the Assembly. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
N.Y. Court of Appeals Rules DWI Law Does Not Apply to Chemical Inhalants Jun 28, 2007
Catherine Young, an Olean Republican, sponsored a bill this year that would have expanded the definition of "drug" to include "inhalants and glues" in the driving-while-ability-impaired-by-drugs law. It passed the GOP-led Senate in March, but didn't get out of committee in the Democrat-led Assembly. (Law.com)
Award-winning DARE officer puts heart in substance abuse prevention, education Jun 11, 2007
Conflict resolution, the dangers of sniffing inhalants, abusing prescription drugs and smoking tobacco products and marijuana and, most recently, bullying are among the lessons on which kids are taught. Kids are also engaged in essay competitions and also develop skits which are also included in a competition. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Upper Dublin School District survey shows 'disturbing' results Jun 6, 2007
Of the Upper Dublin seniors surveyed about their lifetime use, 93 percent said they had used alcohol, 55 percent had used marijuana and 25 percent had used illicit drugs, including inhalants, cocaine, crack, hallucinogens, methamphetamine, ecstasy and steroids, according to the results as presented by the school district. In Pennsylvania, 85 percent of seniors surveyed had used alcohol, 44. (Doylestown Central Bucks Life, PA)
Texas Attorney General settles with drug company for $10M Jun 3, 2007
The Attorney General's suit claimed the companies falsified the wholesale prices of several dozen prescription drugs, particularly inhalants, causing the Texas Medicaid program to overpay the companies for these drugs. "We will not tolerate big pharmaceutical companies that ignore the laws of Texas and bilk Texas taxpayers in the race for profits," Abbott says. (Austin Business Journal, TX)
Mylan Laboratories to Acquire Generics Business of Merck KGaA May 13, 2007
Differentiated dosage form expertise: The combined company will have manufacturing capabilities in several specialized dosage forms including solid orals, patches, controlled-release and high potency formulations, antibiotics, sterile liquids, inhalants and creams. Many of these dosage forms benefit from barriers to competition and longer product growth cycles. (PR Newswire)
DARE is still alive and well in Albany May 3, 2007
Inside classrooms, the officers teach students about the dangers of marijuana, inhalants, alcohol and tobacco. The program also covers topics such as gangs and violence. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Alarm over mouthwash cocktails May 1, 2007
" Mr McFarland's group, the Central Australian Youth Linkup Service (CAYLUS) spends much of its time dealing with drug users addicted to inhalants such as petrol and paint. "We are pretty busy doing inhalants, I'm not sure who it (mouthwash abuse) is going to fall to. " Measures already taken to clamp down on substance abuse in Alice Springs include retailers only selling cask wine between 6pm and 9pm, and keeping paint behind the counter. AAP send photos, videos ffs to 0424 SMS SMH (+61 424 767... (Sydney Morning Herald)
City Council touts drug detector Apr 29, 2007
Wunsch added using any drug-testing method could result in students turning to alcohol or inhalants that are not detected by most tests. "It seems to me there's no evidence it'll be helpful," she said. (Boston University Daily Free Press, MA)
'Huffing' led to crash that killed UCF teen, cops say Apr 29, 2007
But oftentimes, children find a more convenient way to get their hands on inhalants: in the cupboards of their own homes ... Many adults have chosen inhalants as their drug of choice because it doesn't show up on routine drug screens, said Harvey Weiss, executive director of the National Inhalant Prevention Coalition. (Orlando Sentinel)
UCSF launches study on treatment for prescription drug addiction Apr 19, 2007
In that survey, more than 6 million Americans reported using prescription drugs for non-medical uses in the previous month, which is more than the number abusing cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens and inhalants, combined. Those users, however, seem to fit a very different profile from traditional patients in heroin dependence programs, according to Yong Song, PhD, co-principal investigator for the UCSF site study and an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry in the UCSF School of Medicine. (EurekAlert!)
Lifewire: Apple a day may keep asthma away Apr 13, 2007
- Allergy: indoor inhalants (dust, feathers, mold, pets) or outdoor inhalants (molds and pollens) ... - Weather affects outdoor inhalants (wind may blow allergens). (Bend Weekly)
- Germaine Greer Apr 9, 2007
It is his belief that the real cause of the occurrence of Kaposi's sarcoma among gay men is not a retrovirus, but their frequent recourse to amyl nitrite inhalants (poppers). Sadly for Mr Lauritsen, nobody has been paying attention to his howling in the wilderness on these topics and so he has been forced to search out another dead horse and give it a good flogging instead. (Guardian Unlimited)
City's drug problem may not be getting worse, but it's changing: Prescription drugs, availability to children seen as main problems Apr 7, 2007
Project ALERT addresses tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and inhalants, and teaches students skills for resisting drug use. DARE, or Drug Abuse Resistance Education, teaches children skills they need to avoid becoming involved with drugs, gangs and violence. (Hornell Evening Tribune, NY)
D.A.R.E. educates youth on substance abuse prevention ... CPSO arrests DeQuincy man for sexual charges against 14-year-old ... D.S. Perkins host Sulphur Rotary ... State Troopers Assn. offers $10,000 reward to anonymous tipster in trooper shooting ... Sulphur Police Report ... ';var marqueewidth="350px";var marqueeheight="20px";var marqueebgcolor="#FFFFFF";////NO NEED TO EDIT BELOW THIS LINE////////////var pauseit=1;var marqueespeed=1 //slow speed down by 1 for NSvar copyspeed=marqueespeedvar pausespeed=(pauseit==0)? copyspeed: 0var iedom=document.all||document.getElementByIdif (iedom)document.write(''+marqueecontent+'')var actualwidth=''var cross_marquee, ns_marqueefunction populate(){if (iedom){cross_marquee=document.getElementById? document.getElementById("iemarquee") : document.all.iemarqueecross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8+"px"cross_marquee.innerHTML=marqueecontentactualwidth=document.all? temp.offsetWidth : document.getElementById("temp").offsetWidth}else if (document.layers){ns_marquee=document.ns_marquee.document.ns_marquee2ns_marquee.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8ns_marquee.document.write(marqueecontent)ns_marquee.document.close()actualwidth=ns_marquee.document.width}lefttime=setInterval("scrollmarquee()",20)}window.onload=populate;function scrollmarquee(){if (iedom){if (parseInt(cross_marquee.style.left)>(actualwidth*(-1)+8))cross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(cross_marquee.style.left)-copyspeed+"px"elsecross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8+"px"}else if (document.layers){if (ns_marquee.left>(actualwidth*(-1)+8))ns_marquee.left-=copyspeedelsens_marquee.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8}}if (iedom||document.layers){with (document){document.write('')if (iedom){write('')write('')write('')write('')}else if (document.layers){write('')write('')write('')}document.write('')}}Thursday, April 05, 2007 OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA D.A.R.E. educates youth on substance abuse prevention Apr 5, 2007
The D.A.R.E. program covers many different substance abuses such as inhalants, hallucinogens and methanphetamines, and what they do to the body. James said if she can reach one or two students and make a difference, it's life changing. (Sulphur Southwest Daily News, LA)
Drug testing youth poses difficulties: study Apr 2, 2007 Officials address dangers of ‘choking game' Mar 21, 2007 Medical Community Fuming Over Huffing Mar 21, 2007 Survey: NYC Teens Use Drugs, Alcohol Less Than Peers Nationwide Mar 21, 2007 Huffing and Teens Mar 19, 2007 Group warns of huffing dangers Mar 19, 2007 U.S. Opens Study of Prescription Drug Abuse Treatments Mar 18, 2007 Rise in Alcohol Abuse by College Women Mar 17, 2007 Study: More Teens Dying Due To 'Huffing' Mar 17, 2007 Huffing inhalants can be dangerous Mar 16, 2007 Health Highlights: March 15, 2007 Mar 16, 2007 More girls than boys abusing inhalants Mar 16, 2007 Murder draws a 99-year sentence Mar 14, 2007 Misuse of pharmaceuticals linked to more ER visits Mar 14, 2007 Kid drug tests a bad idea? Mar 6, 2007 Teens Charged With Teaching Tots To Toke Mar 5, 2007 Study: Drug use dips, alcohol spikes Feb 28, 2007 View from the Cop Feb 17, 2007 General Assembly Update 02-12 Feb 13, 2007 Shelter Criticized For Euthanizing Cat With Anesthetic Feb 3, 2007 D.A.R.E. grads get the message Jan 23, 2007 Danger Right Under Parents' Noses Jan 20, 2007 TIME OUT: Drugs: Not good for sports or otherwise Jan 17, 2007 Study: Teen drug use down Jan 7, 2007 Different kinds of peer pressure Jan 7, 2007 New Report Provides Snapshot of Substance Use Within 15 Largest U.S. Metropolitan Areas Jan 6, 2007
Some of the participants used illicit drugs that were not easily detected, such as inhalants, and others abused their medications, such as amphetamines often prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. "Certain drugs that commonly are used by adolescents are not reliably detected by multipanel screens," wrote lead study author Sharon Levy in "Pediatrics," the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. (Scientific American)
Full Story... Mar 25, 2007
There are also antihistamine inhalants. More serious cases may require a doctor's visit and testing to see what a person is allergic to. (Appeal Democrat, CA)
Kentucky State Police, Murray Police, and the Calloway County Sheriff's Department participated in the event that not only concerned the choking game, but other safety issues such as self-mutilation by cutting, involvement with different kinds of inhalants, and the dangers of allowing children to be unsupervised while accessing the Internet. However the majority of the program concerned youth self-asphyxiation that has become a national phenomena over the past few years among children, but is... (Murray Ledger & Times, KY)
Now, health officials and schools are trying to educate students as young as third grade about inhalants ... Experts say inhalants such as glue and hair spray get kids high and are easier for kids to get a hold of than tobacco and alcohol ... "Statistics show that children as young as third grade can start sniffing and huffing and abusing inhalants and it usually peaks about eighth or ninth grade," said Gayle Finkelstein, of Fletcher Allen Health Care. (WCAX.com, VT)
White students reported the highest rates of ever trying illegal drugs, with 43 percent having tried drugs such as marijuana or inhalants. White students were also more likely to binge drink than black or Hispanic students. (WNBC.com, NY)
National Inhalants and Poisons Awareness Week ... National Inhalants and Poisons Awareness Week is March 18-24 ... Kids who use inhalants may sweat excessively and have a chemical smell on their breath. (Suite101.com)
1 million young people across the country who huffed household products to get high during 2005, according to a study released this week by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to kick off the 15th annual National Inhalants and Poisons Awareness Week ... Almost 5 percent of girls between the ages of 12 and 17 reported having used inhalants to get high in 2005, up from 4 ... A little more than 4 percent of boys reported having used inhalants, the same percentage that... (Herald Sun)
That's more than the number of people who used cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, and inhalants combined. Researchers plan to enroll 648 people, including those who were prescribed pain drugs for chronic pain and became addicted to them and people who abuse painkillers to get high. (Health-Finder)
And a second report released by the government concludes that young girls are increasingly turning to household inhalants to get high, a practice known as "huffing." ... But while fewer boys began using inhalants in 2005 than three years earlier, the number of girls starting use rose from 285,000 to 337,000, the report concludes ... Overall, just under 5% of U.S. children are estimated to have used inhalants to get high, it shows. (WebMD)
(CBS4) Huffing to get high is nothing new, but the dangerous trend is becoming more popular, as a new study finds more kids are using toxic inhalants, and more are dying as a result ... "He won't get to experience the beauty of falling in love, getting married and having children, said his mother Mona Casey.Many of the inhalants kids use have hydrocarbons. When those compounds are breathed into the lungs, they enter the brain, creating a feeling of intoxication. Doctors say too much inhaling... (WFOR.com, FL)
WASHINGTON, DC -- A new survey finds America's kids are using toxic inhalants to get high, but the effects of huffing can be deadly ... Many of the inhalants kids use have hydrocarbons. (WREG.com, TN)
1 Million U.S. Youth Get High on Inhalants: Report ... 1 million American adolescents (ages 12 to 17) used common household inhalants to get high -- a dangerous and potentially deadly activity, according to a report released Thursday by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) ... The inhalants used to get high include glue, aerosol air fresheners, hair sprays, nail polish, paint solvents, shoe polish, degreasers, gasoline and lighter fluids. (Washington Post)
The coalition presented the new data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration that shows in 2005, more than 600,000 youth started using inhalants, including 337,000 females and 268,000 males ... This means that parents, health professionals and educators must start talking with preteen girls about the dangers of inhalants before it is too late ... Young people who turn to inhalants may be completely unaware of the serious health risks, said Timothy Condon, deputy... (Nampa Idaho Press-Tribune, ID)
He had been abusing pot and inhalants, looking at porn that depicted violence and sex between sons and stepmothers, and had been stealing women's lingerie. One forensic psychologist suggested Cotting is hard-wired for violent, explosive behavior and can't be helped by treatment. (Anchorage Daily News)
The most notable decline occurred for visits involving inhalants, which fell from 9,275 in 2004 to 4,312 in 2005. There were 108 million emergency room visits across the nation in 2005, up 2. (USA Today -- News)
In addition, several illegal drugs are undetectable in urine more than 72 hours after use, and standard tests do not detect often abused substances such as alcohol, Ecstasy and inhalants. Some youngsters may respond to testing by avoiding drugs such as marijuana and instead abuse less-detectable, but more dangerous, drugs, the statement said. (MSNBC -- Health)
Many Teens Using Potentially Fatal Inhalants To Get High At Home. Study: 1 In 4 Tenth Graders Got High From Using Ritalin; OxyContin, Vicodin, Cough Syrup Also Popular. (CBS News -- US)
Illicit drugs include marijuana, cocaine, heroin, non-medical use of prescriptions, inhalants and hallucinogens. Nationally, 51. (USA Today)
What about inhalants. Something that has been around but not really on the front burner of prevention information is inhalant abuse. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Original provisions also required offenders to be monitored through Global Position System, undertake psychological treatment, live in an approved residence, refrain from contacting victims or consuming alcohol, inhalants or controlled substances. Hanger said the substitute will delay the implementation of his original proposal. (The Burke Times, VA)
Isoflurane is on a list of euthanasia methods approved by the state Veterinary Medical Board, but the board said in a 2000 report that injections are preferable to inhalants, which can cause animals to convulse during death. Copyright 2007 by. (TheSanDiegoChannel.com, CA)
Jo Ann Jacob, D.A.R.E. instructor and lieutenant with the Iberia Parish Sheriff s Office, said for the past four months students have learned about the effects of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and inhalants. This program does work, and I had an awesome time with the students today, Jacob said. (New Iberia, LA)
Many Teens Using Potentially Fatal Inhalants To Get High At Home ... (CBS) Many teenagers use inhalants to get high at home ... Inhalants are common household products such as glue, paint, cleaners or hair spray. (CBS News -- Early Show)
Other drugs that are known to be used by athletes are: marijuana, cocaine barbiturates, amphetamines, alcohol, and inhalants. It is my belief that college and high school coaches must take an active role in their player's lives on and off the field. (Demopolis Times, AL)
Inhalants were reportedly the second most frequently used at 6. 2 percent. (Shoals TimesDaily)
These substances are called inhalants. Inhalants cause dizziness, heart disease and brain damage ... A person can die from just one time of using inhalants. (Fort Stockton Pioneer, TX)
Illicit drugs refer to marijuana/hashish, cocaine (including crack), inhalants, hallucinogens, heroin, or prescription-type drugs used nonmedically. Binge alcohol use is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i. (PR Newswire)
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