Inhalant Abuse on the Rise Amongst Teens

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, the peak age for inhalant abusers are 14 and 15 years old.

The abuse of common household cleaners are on the rise amongst teens. In the past years teens have been huffing dust remover used to clean crevices in electronic equipment.

Various fatal and deadly chemicals make up the contents of these aerosol cleaners.

Huffing inhalants has shown to cause hearing loss, limb spasms and brain damage.

Via wtop.com in Washington D.C.

School Drug Testing and Inhalant Use

From Rosebud News in Texas:

In an article about drug testing in schools, an interesting sentence caught our eye:

In 2007, the American Academy of Pediatrics determined: 1) drug testing may motivate adolescents to switch to drugs which pose greater danger (such as inhalants), but are undetectable by screening tests.