National Inhalant Prevention Coalition

Rosenberg and Sharp (National Inhalant Prevention Coalition 2003) identified four patterns of solvent use ... 

The National Inhalant Prevention Coalition (http //www.inhalants.org/) deals with the persistent problem of abuse of inhalants (such as paint thinner, glue, nail polish, and even correction fluid). Their web site describes inhalant abuse and gives tips for parents on how to spot its presence in children. 

Solvent abusers can die, sometimes after a single prolonged episode of sniffing, from either physical effects of the chemicals or dangerous behavior related to the user s impaired state of mind. The National Inhalant Prevention Coalition, a nonprofit organization based in Austin, Texas, records 100 to 125 deaths from inhalants... 

Following are examples of such chemicals, by category, listed by the National Inhalant Prevention Coalition and Kaiser Permanente ... 

How does an overlooked health risk break into the news The National Inhalant Prevention Coalition, with the support of the Mental Health Services Administration Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, publicizes the subject each March, during National Inhalants and Poison Awareness Week. In 1999, the American Academy of Pediatrics commissioned an inhalant abuse survey, which received a great deal of national news coverage. 

Unfortunately, the laughing gas parties and parlor tricks of the early 1800s have evolved into abuse, and nitrous oxide is one of many commonly abused inhalants in the United States. The National Inhalant Prevention Coalition reports that one in five American children have used an inhalant by eighth grade. 

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Sudden sniffing deaths are responsible for more than half of the deaths due to inhalant abuse. This has been compared to a form of Russian roulette by Harvey Weiss, director of the National Inhalant Prevention Coalition, in which a user may die the first time they sniff, or the tenth time, or the hundredth time. If a sniffer has used inhalants before without consequence, that does not mean she does not have a chance of experiencing a cardiac arrhythmia. Sudden sniffing deaths are mostly associated with aerosols, butane, toluene, and propane. 

In Texas, where National Inhalants 8c Poisons Awareness Week has been most extensively observed, inhalant use has decreased. Between 1992 and 1994, inhalant use decreased by 30% in elementary school and was reduced more than 20% at the high-school level from state agency surveys of over 176,000 students. The National Inhalant Prevention Coalition estimates that over 100,000 students who may have used inhalants chose not to, in part because of this initiative. 

During the tenth annual National Inhalants Poisons Awareness Week in 2002, two postcards were issued by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Inhalant Prevention Coalition depicting the heart-stopping and... 

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