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Aishat Bishi
Professor Fultz-Butts
PHED 2022
26 February 2015
Inhalants: A Psychoactive Drug Psychoactive drugs are drugs that can change a person's mood, or brain function when taken. Inhalants are subtle harmful substances that are found in objects such as hair sprays, glues, detergents, gasoline, deodorants, and permanent markers. Inhalants are abused highest by young adolescents than teenager, and the type of inhalants used differ by age. Users from ages twelve to sixteen abuse shoe polish, sprays, paints, gasoline, glue, and permanent markers. Inhalants come in different groups such as volatile solvents, nitrates, aerosols, and anesthetics, and long term usage can cause serious problems. Inhalants are easy to obtain, they have disadvantages, and they have long term effects.
Although inhalants are probably the cheapest form of psychoactive drugs, they are readily available in homes were young adolescents have simple access to them. The purpose of abusing inhalants is to get high, and the high does not last more than a few minute, but in order to continue, the abusers would re inhale for more hours. There are several ways that inhalant abusers may choose to receive their high. Abusers of inhalants may chose to consume the substance through the nose or mouth by sniffing or snorting fumes from glue bottles, permanent markers, spray aerosols, they may choose to huff: they put a chemically soaked rag or cloth into their mouth, or by bagging: they inhale chemical fumes from plastic bags .
When inhalants are abused, they cause minor to serious damages to the abuser. There are no advantages of abusing inhalants, but there are disadvantages. When inhalants are abused in small doses, the users feel slightly high, but when taken in larger doses, they feel less in control of their body. When the toxic fluids are inhaled, they cause depression of the central nervous system, loss of consciousness, loss of coordination, delusion, hallucination, and dizziness.
Professor Fultz-Butts
PHED 2022
26 February 2015
Inhalants: A Psychoactive Drug Psychoactive drugs are drugs that can change a person's mood, or brain function when taken. Inhalants are subtle harmful substances that are found in objects such as hair sprays, glues, detergents, gasoline, deodorants, and permanent markers. Inhalants are abused highest by young adolescents than teenager, and the type of inhalants used differ by age. Users from ages twelve to sixteen abuse shoe polish, sprays, paints, gasoline, glue, and permanent markers. Inhalants come in different groups such as volatile solvents, nitrates, aerosols, and anesthetics, and long term usage can cause serious problems. Inhalants are easy to obtain, they have disadvantages, and they have long term effects.
Although inhalants are probably the cheapest form of psychoactive drugs, they are readily available in homes were young adolescents have simple access to them. The purpose of abusing inhalants is to get high, and the high does not last more than a few minute, but in order to continue, the abusers would re inhale for more hours. There are several ways that inhalant abusers may choose to receive their high. Abusers of inhalants may chose to consume the substance through the nose or mouth by sniffing or snorting fumes from glue bottles, permanent markers, spray aerosols, they may choose to huff: they put a chemically soaked rag or cloth into their mouth, or by bagging: they inhale chemical fumes from plastic bags .
When inhalants are abused, they cause minor to serious damages to the abuser. There are no advantages of abusing inhalants, but there are disadvantages. When inhalants are abused in small doses, the users feel slightly high, but when taken in larger doses, they feel less in control of their body. When the toxic fluids are inhaled, they cause depression of the central nervous system, loss of consciousness, loss of coordination, delusion, hallucination, and dizziness.