Do you know about the true dangers of 'huffing'?

Question

Many people seem to be misinformed or uninformed when it comes to this potentially deadly and disabling behavior. Huffing is the informal term that describes inhalant use, and other terms include sniffing, bagging, ballooning, chroming, or glading. A friend has a traumatic brain injury (tbi) and other permanent damage including bone marrow (fatty inner lining of the bones) damage from when she huffed at age 12. She's now in her 30's. Studies show that 1 in 4 kids by 8th grade have tried it.

Please do talk with your children about the use of inhaling fumes from household or industrial products used to get a cheap, quick high and how destructive they really are which include glue, paint, gasoline, nail polish, aerosol spray cans, whipped cream dispensers (compressed gas which is actually nitrous oxid) or any other type of gas or solvent. The person can die to become permanently disabled even after 'just' One time!

National Inhalant Prevention Coalition: www.inhalants.org

Melissa, congratulations on stopping the use of inhalants! Hopefully you have healthy ways of coping :) If you feel like doing that again, please do Not and instead talk with an addictions counselor and/or perhaps consider attending a 12- step meeting such as narcotics anonymous or alcoholics anonymous (an 'open' meeting if you never drank alcohol). Bless you and please take good care.

Answer 1

I did already know the true dangers from my chemical addictions counseling training. But thank you for taking the time to educate others, its a very dangerous practice.

Answer 2

i used tro be a huffer. I quit after 3 or 4 weeks of it

Answer 3

my children are to scary to do that