Sew Many Passions!: Indiscreet Inhalants Cause DEATH.

As you all know I do not create post of this nature. I now feel the need to start touching base on this topic many times throughout the year.

Unfortunately this post has been created because of a death in my son's school.

This week the community lost a young life, a Senior in High School, to the effects of Inhalant Abuse. The young man was found by his mother on the night of the accident. I cannot imagine the sheer terror that raced through her mind, through her veins, turning her entire life upside down.

I am posting some information that you can use to educate yourself on identifying problems of INHALANT ABUSE that you probably have NOT Been Aware Of.

Inhalant Abuse is all around us. The vehicle this drug travels in is sitting inside our homes. It is indiscreet. All of our children, siblings, spouses, parents, neighbors, babysitters, etc. could become addicted to Abusing Inhalants. Once someone is aware of how easy it is to secretly "get a quick high", it could be happening within your very own home, and you may not be aware of it -
until it's too late.

Have your heard any of these terms?
Air Blast, Bagging, Bullet Bolt, Chroming, Discorama, Glading, Gluey, Hardware, Heart-On, Highball, Hippie Crack, Honey Oil, Huff, Medusa, Moon Gas, Oz, Quick Silver, Rush, Satan's Secret, Snotballs, Spray, Texas Shoe Shine, Thrust, Toilet Water, Tolly, Toncho, Whiteout

If so, you should do some deep research within the links provided.

National Inhalant Prevention Coalition
This website has some great information that you can use to educate yourself on identifying problems of INHALANT ABUSE.

Your Community HAS THE POWER to Help Bring Awareness!
National Inhalants & Poisons Awareness Week
{March 20 - 26, 2011}
excerpt:
Prevention through education has proven to work against this popular form of substance abuse. This is why the National Inhalant Prevention Coalition has developed National Inhalants & Poisons Awareness Week (NIPAW), an annual media-based, community-level program that takes place the third week in March. NIPAW is designed to increase understanding about the use and risks of inhalant involvement. It is an inclusive program that involves youth, schools, media, police departments, health organization, civics groups and more. It has proven to be an effective means of mobilizing communities to reduce inhalant use. Almost 2,000 organizations and individuals from 46 states participated in the last NIPAW campaign.

Send the link of the above site, or of this post, to your school, police, sheriff, health department, etc. Help BRING AWARENESS to this IMPORTANT AWARENESS WEEK. It just may save a life, or many, within your own community, if not within your own home.

As an individual, you can join the NIPC mailing list through the Home Page Link on their website {within the first paragraph}.

I am listing a few other websites below for you to further your education on this issue:
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Inhalants = Poison: That’s the Message

Inhalant.org
Strike Out Inhalants. Talk To Your Kids.

You will find an entire list of links listed here:
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Where Can I Get More Scientific Information on Inhalant Abuse?

Do you think it is not happening in your area?
If you are curious about the numbers of reports for Inhalant Abuse being recorded, just check out this blog, Inhalant-Info.Blogspot.com and look at the number of short stories from just this year - in Six Weeks!

I've been posting links for Inhalant Abuse on FaceBook.
I encourage you to do the same.
Please share this post with your Networking Friends so that they can research this information to help saves lives in their own community and within their own home.
Thank You.