Adolescents and inhalants

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Adolescents and Inhalants : Healthy people 2010 objective

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Healthy People 2010 is a nation wide health promotion and disease prevention program to improve health of the nation in the first decade The goals are to improve health , prevent disease , disability and early death

An inhalant is a product that releases a kind of gas or vapors that if inhaled produces similar kind of effect to reach a high . Inhalants are legal products of everyday use that

have some kind of stimulant effect Inhaling unsafe vapors from hazardous products have adverse effects on health . Several people use inhalants to reach high . Every one in five students have used inhalants by the time they reach 8th grade . Its use is equivalent to marijuana and alcohol abuse . Several household and inexpensive products present in our homes can be used as inhalants

These harmful products can pose different kind of health problems . These inhalants are mostly legal items used for daily purposes but their abusive use comes with excessive inhalation to get high . Their excessive inhalation may cause severe health problems . Several household commonly used are glue , tip of the marker , paint , correction fluid , air fresheners , sprays including cooking spray and spray paint , air conditioning refrigerant and butane are few to name among more that 1000 different products . Inhalants are equivalents to substance abuse

This is in accordance with the findings that inhalants substance abuse is seen in adolescents along with psychiatric diss . These may be mild at first , but there is chance that these may progress to increasingly complicated problems and outcomes such as suicidal tendencies , early pregnancies and violence . All these findings make it imperative that we find ways to reduce the problem of inhalants substance abuse by helping restore the affected adolescent 's mental and psychological status (Solhkhah , 2001

USA has become one of the most affected nations in the world regarding inhalants substance abuse diss in the adolescent population . It is considered to be one the biggest causes of road accidents as well . The progression of the condition has many identifiable stages , which progress step by step , making it easy for health professionals to identify in all its stages . First steps usually involve experimenting with the drugs or substances and realizing the various affects on the moods that they can elicit . This may then progress to regular mood seeking , which becomes a preoccupation on the daily basis . The last stage is the dependence that the adolescent may develop so as to work or perform or in fact feel normal (Senay , 2007 The stages are very much linked to the psychological processes therefore any one who has any psychiatric illness is prone to inhalants substance abuse behavior and vice versa

The recent study by Solhkhah had shown that inhalants substance abuse adolescents have a high prevalence of depressive diss . He calculated these to range from 15 to 50 . These statistics become even higher if the adolescent...