From U.S. News & World Report August 6, 2008
We receive a lot of phone calls, emails, inquiries on our Inhalant message board asking if there are any over the counter tests for inhalants. Unfortunately, no such test exists. This article explores drug tests, and 5 ways teens (and adults) try to cheat them.
Shockingly, bullet #3 explains how in order for a drug not to show up teens switch drugs to ones harder to detect (i.e. inhalants)- not realizing it may be considerably more hazardous. The article goes on to explain how "inhaling is acutely more dangerous than marijuana" and it how inhalant abuse “can trigger a lethal heart problem known as "sudden sniffing death" in otherwise healthy adolescents, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.”
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