Inhalant Abuse Efforts in California

From the Press-Enterprise in California:

The article discusses various school districts and their efforts in proactively educating students about inhalants and preventing inhalant abuse.

The director of educational safety and security for Rialto Unified School District mentions “a student inhaled the spray in a school restroom and passed out a couple years ago. Paramedics were called and the student recovered.” He continues, “The district has caught a couple more students with computer dusting spray but hasn't had a case in more than a year.”

A store manager states that sales of dust-remover sprays and model airplane glue are already restricted to purchasers 18 and older under California law but “while minors can't buy it, the biggest problem is they can walk in and steal it."

In Alvord Unified School District, a board member saw the story of Jeff Williams online, researched the issue and then put it on the board agenda. She notes, "It is our responsibility, my responsibility to make parents aware." The school’s superintendent promised to “institute an aggressive campaign to get the information about the dangers of inhaling dust-remover sprays out to parents.”

In the Corona-Norco Unified School District, “Inhaling is addressed in the Project Alert curriculum taught in seventh grade.” “Moreno Valley uses Too Good for Drugs” and San Jacinto schools "use Project Alert for middle school students, as well as classes taught by the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, called Gang Resistance Education And Training."