American teens view sniffing inhalants as less dangerous than they did five years ago, suggesting a greater willingness to try "huffing," concludes a national survey released Monday. Seventy-seven ...

alarming trend -- that preteens and young teens who use drugs chose inhalants as a "gateway" drug to other illicit drugs. The findings released at the National Inhalant Prevention Coalition's latest ...

More pre-teens using household inhalants to get high, according to survey April 8, 2010— -- In 7th grade, Riley Foster, 16, of Indianapolis, Ind., would hide out in his garage after school and ...

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Changes in the expression of genes may be the reason why people who abuse inhalants, such as spray paint or glue, quickly develop a tolerance, biologists have discovered. This is the first study to ...

Sniffing glue is a form of inhalant abuse that can have serious health consequences. Nearly 20% of children in middle and high school have experimented with some form of inhalant because it provides a ...

For months, parents in Diana del Pozo-Mora’s Boyle Heights neighborhood had been hearing that children -- some as young as 11 and 12 -- had passed out at school after inhaling “whippets,” small ...

Inhalant use is the deliberate inhalation or "sniffing" of common, legal substances to achieve a mind-altering state referred to as a "high. Inhalants are products with a variety of industrial, ...

Dustin Gulley knows the dangers of inhaling some common household items. "It's immediate gratification," Gulley said. "It's the most intense buzz I've everhad. It almost makes you go into a blackout ...

Abused inhalants are widely used, especially among school-age children and teenagers, and are ‘gateway’ drugs leading to the abuse of alcohol and other addictive substances. In spite of this ...