National Inhalants Poisons Awareness

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... 

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. 

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. 

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