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  MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Drug abuse
Inhalant abuse became popular with young teens in the 1960s with "glue sniffing." Since then, a broader variety of inhalants have become popular.
Inhalant use typically involves younger adolescents or school-age children and occurs primarily as experimental behavior within groups of peers.
Commonly abused inhalants include model glue, spray paints, cleaning fluids, gasoline, liquid typewriter correction fluid, and aerosol propellants for deodorants or hair sprays.
www.nlm.nih.gov /medlineplus/ency/article/001945.htm   (2300 words)

  
 About journalism -- A large and irreverent collection of quotes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In 1959, I was on rewrite duty for the Miami Herald when the police reporter called to report, along with the usual car accidents and gambling raids, that police were encountering a new form of drug abuse: teenagers sniffing the fumes of model airplane glue from paper bags.
Never having heard of such a thing, I dismissed the matter as unimportant and didn't bother the city desk with it.
Several years passed before glue sniffing in particular and drug abuse in general among the young became recognized as a social problem.
www.morrock.com /newsdef.htm   (8463 words)

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