Solvents

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Solvents
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What are Solvents?

• Solvents are
• A type of inhalant
• Known as volatile solvents liquids that vaporize
  at room temperatures
• Paint thinner, glue, gasoline, correction fluid,
  felt-tip marker fluid, and more
• Found in some aerosols
• Spray paint, hair spray, vegetable oil sprays

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Some Solvents
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How they are used

• Sniffing or snorting
• Bagging
• Huffing
• Spraying aerosols directly into the nose or mouth

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The High

• Intoxication similar to alcohol
• Slurred speech, euphoria, dizziness, inability to
  coordinate movements
• Lightheadedness
• Hallucinations
• Delusions

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Health issues

• Sudden sniffing death
• Asphyxiation
• Suffocation
• Convulsions
• Coma
• Choking
• Fatal injury

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Health issues cont.

• Damage to protective sheath around nerve fibers
• Damage to brain areas that control
• Movement, vision, hearing, and cognition.
• Damage to
• Heart, lungs, liver, and kidney

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Abuse

• 3.0 of US children have tried an inhalant by
  the time they reach fourth grade making inhalants
  one of the first drugs that young children use
• Use is more common from seventh to ninth grade,
  but decreases from tenth to twelfth grade
• Gender differences in abuse show up at different
  ages