Another federal report found that 17 percent of high school seniors use inhalants, second only to the use of alcohol, which is 70 percent among teenagers. In a recent study for the National Institute for Drug Abuse done by the University of Michigan, 20 percent of children had tried inhalants at least once by the time they reach the eighth grade.
``But if a kid is using inhalants heavily,'' he says, ``typically he has a multitude of personal problems at home, in school, and inhaling is only one of them.'' ``The sad irony is that many of the kids actually seek out the products with the harmful labels,'' says Fred Beauvais, a senior research scientist at Colorado State University, who has done drug surveys for federal research projects. Within minutes, he was dead, a tragic statistic. The Indiana boy used contact cement in a gym bag, inhaling from inside the bag. And in Latin American cities, hundreds of thousands of street children are known to use inhalants to get high.
In some parts of the United States it's known as ``huffing.'' In other places it's called ``sniffing.''Īccording to the International Institute of Inhalants Abuse (IIIA) in Englewood, Colo., this misuse of readily available household products by youngsters and teenagers is increasing in the US, about 1 percent a year over the last 10 years.
Others at school were sniffing inhalants to get high by using various means, some soaking cloth with lighter fluid and inhaling the vapors, others sniffing from small plastic bags filled with fabric protector fluid. HE was a 15-year-old Indiana boy caught up in an activity with lethal consequences.
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