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The prevalance of teen inhalant abuse calls for more prevention and treatment. Nearly one million teens used some kind of inhalant in 2007. Inhalant abuse is common because of the easy availability of household items like glue, lighter fluid, shoe polish, correction fluid, cleaning products, deodorants, hair sprays and whipped cream canisters. Most parents do not realize their teens are engaging in such risky behavior and don’t know how dangerous and often deadly inhalant abuse can be.
A single session of repeated inhalant abuse, often called “huffing”, can disrupt heart rhythms and cause death from cardiac arrest. It can lower oxygen levels, resulting in death by suffocation. Regular inhalant abuse can cause irreparable damage to the brain, heart, kidneys and liver.