Chemicals or fumes from common household products that are sniffed or inhaled for their mind-altering effects.
Inhalants are ordinary household products, which are inhaled or sniffed by children to get high. Over one in five 8th -graders has used inhalants. Common ones are: model airplane glue, nail polish remover, cleaning fluids, hair spray, gasoline, the propellant in aerosol whipped cream, spray paint, air conditioner fluid (freon), cooking spray, and correction fluid. Inhalants, like anesthesia, slow down the body's functions. Users may feel stimulated, disoriented or out of control. Inhalants starve the body of oxygen. This can lead to brain damage, unconsciousness or death.
Inhalants are something that you inhale. It's as simple as that. Inhalants can be irritants (such as allergens). Inhalants can also be drugs that are delivered to the respiratory passages by a nebulizer or an aerosol container.
Inhalants are a range of products (many of which are familiar household items) which, when vaporised and inhaled, may cause the user to feel intoxicated or 'high'. Like alcohol, inhalants are 'depressants', which doesn't necessarily mean that they make you feel depressed. They slow down the activity of the brain and central nervous system. The messages are slowed down going to and from the brain to the body, including physical, mental and emotional responses. AKA:Glue, gas, sniff, huff, chroming (as in the use of chrome paint), poppers.
Legal household, industrial, medical, and office products that are volatile (vaporize or evaporate easily), producing chemical vapors. Abusers inhale concentrated amounts of these vapors, by various means, to alter their consciousness.
Toxic substances that produce a sense of intoxication when inhaled.
Inhalants include a variety of psychoactive substances which are inhaled as gases or volatile liquids. They include glue, gasoline, paint thinner, and other household products that are not considered to be drugs.
There are a number of substances that produce strong intoxicating vapors such as paint, paint thinner, modeling glue, gas liquid whiteout, magic markers and many others. These substances are very dangerous and are often used by young people.
Any drug administered by breathing in its vapors. Most inhalants are organic solvents such as glue and paint thinner, or anesthetic gases such as ether and nitrous oxide.
Vapours from lighter fluid, paint thinner, cleaning fluid, and model airplane glue sniffed to reach a drowsy, dizzy state, sometimes accompanied by hallucinations.