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Substance Abuse Information - Inhalants

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How can you possibly die from using Inhalants?

    According to medical experts, death can occur in at least five ways:

  1. asphyxia - solvent gases can significantly limit available oxygen in the air, causing breathing to stop;
  2. suffocation - typically seen with inhalant users who use bags;
  3. choking on vomit;
  4. careless and dangerous behaviors in potentially dangerous settings; and
  5. sudden sniffing death syndrome, presumably from cardiac arrest.