These substances include:. Inhalants are various products easily bought and found in the home or workplace—such as spray paints, markers, glues, and cleaning fluids. They contain dangerous substances that have psychoactive mind-altering properties when inhaled. People don't typically think of these products as drugs because they're not intended for getting high, but some people use them for that purpose.
When these substances are used for getting high, they are called inhalants. Inhalants are mostly used by young kids and teens and are the only class of substance used more by younger than by older teens.
People who use inhalants breathe in the fumes through their nose or mouth, usually by sniffing, snorting, bagging, or huffing.
Although the high that inhalants produce usually lasts just a few minutes, people often try to make it last by continuing to inhale again and again over several hours. Most inhalants affect the central nervous system and slow down brain activity. Short-term effects are similar to alcohol and include:. With repeated inhalations, many people feel less self-conscious and less in control. Some may start vomiting, feel drowsy for several hours, or have a headache that lasts a while.
Unlike other types of inhalants, nitrites, which are often prescribed to treat chest pain, are misused in order to improve sexual pleasure by expanding and relaxing blood vessels. In addition, because nitrites are misused for sexual pleasure and performance, they can lead to unsafe sexual practices or other risky behavior. Read more about drug use and hepatitis at our webpage about viral hepatitis. Yes, a person can overdose on inhalants.
This applies to the whole of the UK. If you or someone else needs urgent help after taking drugs or drinking, call for an ambulance. Tell the crew everything you know. It could save their life. Glues, gases and aerosols A wide range of glues, gases, solvents and aerosols containing volatile substances, which people inhale to get high. How it looks, tastes and smells What does it look like? Many are normal household products — such as: butane gas lighter refills aerosols containing hairspray deodorants and air fresheners tins or tubes of glue some paints, thinners and correcting fluids cleaning fluids surgical spirit petrol.
How do people take it? How it feels How does it make you feel? The effects can vary from person to person and depend on what specific glue, gas, solvent or aerosol has been used, but the common effects can include: Feeling like being drunk with dizziness, dreaminess, fits of the giggles, and difficulty thinking straight.
The effects can vary from person to person and depend on what specific glue, gas, solvent, or aerosol has been used, but the common effects can include: mood swings aggressive behaviour hallucinations vomiting and blackouts.
How long it lasts How long the effect of glues, gases, solvents or aerosols lasts varies and some users tend to keep repeating the dose to keep the feeling going. In the case of butane, the effects can last up to 30 minutes.
Some users die from passing out and choking on their own vomit. You risk suffocation if you inhale from a plastic bag over your head. In the case of some solvents, you can develop a red rash around the mouth. They can seriously affect your judgment and when you're high there's a real danger you'll try something dangerous.
Mixing Is it dangerous to mix with other drugs? But they also include medical anesthesia products such as ether, chloroform, halothane, and nitrous oxide. Nitrous oxide can be found in whipped cream dispensers and products that raise octane levels in racing cars. Household or commercial products that have gases include butane lighters, propane tanks, whipped cream dispensers, and refrigerants. These substances open the blood vessels and relax the muscles.
Instead of changing a mood like the other categories of inhalants, nitrites enhance sex. Nitrites include cyclohexyl nitrite, isoamyl amyl nitrite, and isobutyl butyl nitrite. They are often called poppers or snappers.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has banned the sale of nitrites for human use. But these products can still be found. They are sold in small bottles with labels such as video head cleaner, room deodorizer, and liquid aroma.
Spraying aerosol containers directly into the nose or mouth. Sniffing or inhaling fumes from substances sprayed or placed inside a plastic or paper bag. Holding a rag soaked with inhalant up to the face or stuffing it in the mouth. Breathing in vapors, such as from balloons filled with nitrous oxide.
When enough inhalant is breathed in through the nose or mouth, it can cause intoxicating effects. At first users may feel slightly stimulated. After breathing in more of the substance, they feel less inhibited and less in control. Sniffing highly concentrated amounts of the chemicals in solvents or aerosol sprays can cause heart irregularities and death.
High concentrations of inhalants also can cause death from suffocation. This happens because inhaling concentrated chemicals prevents you from breathing in any oxygen. If the lungs and brain are without oxygen for a long enough time, you will suffocate and die. This can happen with huffing and bagging.
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