Teen Inhalant Users at Greater Risk for Hard Drug Use

From the inhalentsrecovery.com blog:

The post discusses the Duke University study that “investigated the relationship between inhalant use among adolescents and the concurrent likelihood of injection drug use.

The study’s findings show:

· Adolescents who used marijuana and inhalants were 2.9 times more likely to have injected drugs than teens who just used marijuana

· Adolescents who had used inhalants but not marijuana were not more likely to have used heroin

· Inhalant users, regardless of their past use of marijuana, were more likely to report injection drug use than other teens