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Abuse of inhalants: a review
1Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110.
Addiction (Abingdon, England)
|August 1, 1994
Abstract:
Inhalants, a chemically heterogeneous group of psychoactive substances found in adhesives, lighter fluids, spray paints, cleaning fluids and typewriter correction fluid, may be used by up to 10% of young people. This article reviews the health effects, epidemiology, risk of other substance use and addiction and psychiatric co-morbidity associated with the practice of inhalant use.