Different Types of Inhalants
Inhalants can be categorized into four different types:
Liquids that vaporize at room temperatures. These are found in easily available household and industrial products including paint thinners, degreasers, gasoline, glues, correction fluids and felt-tip marker fluids.
Sprays such as spray paints, deodorant and hair sprays, vegetable oil sprays for cooking and fabric protector sprays.
Gases including medical anesthetics (ether, chloroform and nitrous oxide, commonly called laughing gas), butane lighters, propane tanks, whipped cream dispensers and refrigerants.
Nitrites chemical compounds found in food preservatives, leather cleaner, room deodorizers, etc. They are used mainly as sexual enhancers and are commonly known as poppers or snappers.
I actually found myself talking to what I call ‘gas buddies’ [the hallucinations]. One day I was huffing and I thought my friend died because the hallucination of him came to me.
“I found myself huffing not only for the visuals, but for the company of these imaginary friends that would come to me when I would start to huff. I have been struggling with this addiction for about seven months now.” —Erin
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