Articles

• Inhalant abuse by young people is preventable
• Education, awareness is key to preventing inhalant abuse
• Awareness of inhalant abuse needs to start early

Services

• Adult Addiction Treatment Services
• Youth Addiction Treatment Services

Products

• Danger Toxic Chemicals: An Inhalants Prevention Video

Other sites

• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
  Inhalants are breathable chemical vapors that produce psychoactive (mind-altering) effects. A variety of products common in the home and in the workplace contain substances that can be inhaled. Many people do not think of these products, such as spray paints, glues, and cleaning fluids, as drugs because they were never meant to be used to achieve an intoxicating effect. Yet, young children and adolescents can easily obtain them and are among those most likely to abuse these extremely toxic substances.
  
  
• NIDA for Teens
  Common slang for inhalants includes "laughing gas" (nitrous oxide), "snappers" (amyl nitrite), "poppers" (amyl nitrite and butyl nitrite), "whippets" (fluorinated hydrocarbons, found in whipped cream dispensers), "bold" (nitrites), and "rush" (nitrites).
  
  
• National Inhalant Prevention Coalition
  The NIPC serves as an inhalant referral and information clearinghouse, stimulates media coverage about inhalant issues, develops informational materials, produces ViewPoint (a quarterly newsletter), provides training and technical assistance and leads a week-long national grassroots inhalant education and awareness campaign. NIPC works with state agencies, schools, businesses, trade associations, media, civic organizations, law enforcement, Poison Control Centers and interfaith groups throughout the country to educate and devise multifaceted awareness and prevention campaigns designed to educate youth and adults about the debilitating effects of these dangerous gateway drugs. NIPC also provides inservice training for educators.
  
  
• Office of National Drug Control Policy - Drug Facts
  The principal purpose of ONDCP is to establish policies, priorities, and objectives for the Nation's drug control program. The goals of the program are to reduce illicit drug use, manufacturing, and trafficking, drug-related crime and violence, and drug-related health consequences.
  
  
• Parents. The Anti-Drug.
  Join with your neighbors and help make a difference in a young person's life and in the health of your community.