Brief Description
Many products readily found in the home or workplace—such as spray paints, markers, glues, and cleaning fluids—contain volatile substances that have psychoactive (mind-altering) properties when inhaled. People do not typically think of these products as drugs because they were never intended for that purpose. However, these products are sometimes abused in that way. They are especially (but not exclusively) abused by young children and adolescents, and are the only class of substance abused more by younger than by older teens. Learn more
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Statistics and Trends
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Drug | Time Period | 8th Graders | 10th Graders | 12th Graders |
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Inhalants | Lifetime | [7.70] | 6.60 | 5.00 |
Past Year | [3.80] | 2.40 | 1.70 | |
Past Month | 1.80 | 1.00 | 0.80 |
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Drug | Time Period | Ages 12 or Older | Ages 12 to 17 | Ages 18 to 25 | Ages 26 or Older |
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Inhalants | Lifetime | 9.60 | 9.10 | 13.10 | 9.60 |
Past Year | 0.70 | 2.70 | 4.10 | 0.30 | |
Past Month | 0.20 | 0.70 | 0.90 | 0.10 |
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