Inhalants
Inhalants are solvents or volatile anesthetics that are subject to abuse by inhalation. Most are central nervous system (CNS) depressants, but some are convulsants. As a class they are chara...
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Inhalants: Extent of Use and Complications
About 12 1/2 million ADOLESCENTS in this country say that they have sniffed INHALANTS—usually volatile solvents such as spray paint, glue, or cigarett...
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Inhalants
Inhalants are solvents or anesthetics that are administered by being breathed in. Examples include paint thinners, glues, hair sprays, spray paints, lighter fluids, nitrous oxide, propane, a...
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Inhalants
What Kind of Drug Is It?
Inhalants are legal household, industrial, medical, and office products that can be deadly when misused. They contain dangerous vapors—gas or fumes that can b...
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Inhaling is one of the most abusive substances that children and teenagers use in the US. Children will tend to inhale fumes and chemicals from sprays and ordinary household products, and these fumes ...
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A new inhaled steroid treatment for preventing asthma attacks in young children has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the drugmaker Schering-Plough Corp. said Monday.Its Asmanex Tw...
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Microwave popcorn fans worried about the potential for lung disease from butter flavoring fumes should know this: The sole reported case of the disease in a non-factory worker involves a man who po...
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Microwave popcorn fans worried about the potential for lung disease from butter flavoring fumes should know this: The sole reported case of the disease in a non-factory worker involves a man who po...
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A video of Amy Winehouse shows the Grammy-nominated singer smoking ... something. In grainy footage obtained by British tabloid The Sun, Winehouse, 24, is seen inhaling fumes from some sort of pipe...
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Wayne Watson loved microwave popcorn so much he would eat at least two bags each night, breathing in the steam from the just-opened package, until doctors told him it may have made him sick.Watson,...
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Pfizer's stab at giving diabetics insulin without needles is getting more praise than prescriptions so far. Exubera, a powdered form inhaled through a special device, was introduced last year in a ...
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Stockholm (dpa) - Lung functions in asthma patients who were
treated with inhaled corticosteroids appeared to improve in the long-
term, according to a new European study. ...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - As New York City firefighters
struggled to find survivors in the haze and rubble of the World
Trade Center collapse, the fire department's chief doctor was
thinking about how t...
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Dry powder inhalers (DPIs) have advanced significantly over the past 10–15 years.1 This has been driven by the need to reformulate pressurized metered dose systems to chlorofluorocarbon (CFC...
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Pfizer's stab at giving diabetics insulin without needles is getting more praise than prescriptions so far.Exubera, a powdered form inhaled through a special device, was introduced last year in a t...
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