Recovering Inhalant Abuser Talks

WSBT2 of South Bend, Indiana posted "Recovering Addicts Warn About Inhalant Abuse Among Teens" last month, and it contains a harrowing story from a former inhalant user, 17-year-old Jordan Paul. He described how how he would indiscriminately inhale "anything I could get my hands on, aerosol, gas — anything I could find."

He progressed from inhalants to cocaine, LSD, and ecstacy, and remembers one of his lowest points:

"I took all my friends and I opened up the door to my parents’ room and said, ‘Anything you can find that’s worth money you can take it,’ and just sold it all because that's how desperate I was."

He eventually overdosed on drugs and was checked into the hospital. He has now been clean for 13 months.