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- Among 12th graders there was a long-term gradual increase in the use of inhalants
(unadjusted for nitrite inhalants) from 1976 to 1987, followed by a leveling for a few
years and then a further increase in the 1990s. - In the early 1990s, there was a troublesome increase in inhalant use among secondary school students generally, followed by a reversal after 1995.
- After reaching a low point in 2002 or 2003 in grades 8, 10, and 12, use of inhalants increased some in all grades, but then declined in all grades more recently, at least through 2007.
- Perceived risk among 8th and 10th graders was declining fairly steadily after 2001, quite possibly as a result of generational forgetting of the dangers of these drugs; this decline halted among the 8th graders , but then resumed in 2008. A new anti-inhalant campaign might well be effective in offsetting this decline in perceived risk in recent years, much as a similar campaign did in the mid-1990s.
- One class of inhalants, amyl and butyl nitrites, became somewhat popular in the late
1970s, but their use has been almost eliminated.
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- In 8th grade, inhalants rank second only to marijuana among the illicitly used drugs in
terms of annual prevalence, and they actually rank first in lifetime use. - In 2008 the proportion of 8th graders reporting any illicit drug use in their lifetime, exclusive of inhalants, was 20%, whereas including inhalants raised the figure to 28%.
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- The 8th- and 10th-grade samples --The use of inhalants is slightly higher
among females.
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- One 8th grader in six (16%) reported using inhalants
- 1 in 24 (4.1%) reported inhalant use in just the past month.
- This is the only class of drugs for which use is
substantially higher in 8th grade than in 10th or 12th grade. - The very large number of 8th graders who have already begun using the so-called
“gateway drugs” (tobacco, alcohol, inhalants, and marijuana) suggests that a substantial
number are also at risk of proceeding further to such drugs as LSD, cocaine,
amphetamines, and heroin.
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