Inhalant Abuse Prevention

I've started again.

rin22 — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:15:29 GMT

I've been here before, and you guys helped me a lot with my addiction of huffing air freshener.. I've been clean for about a year, but I suddenly had a relapse 2 weeks ago and I'm doing it again. I've huffed air freshener 6 times tonight and I'm afraid. I'm fully aware of all the long-term effects that this can have on my body but I just can't find it in me to stop, no matter how much I want to. Is there any way I can be helped without going to my friends,family, or some rehab-type place?

Positive inhilation

illfantom — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:41:12 GMT

If you are going to try inhailing something to help you find out how rich and wonderfull life is, then try DMT. Your brain/computer was programmed with it on your 49th day after your conception, so its not a foreign chemical. But it WILL show you the truth

Right Next To Me

LosingMyOnlyLove — Thur, 02 Sep 2010 12:02:48 GMT

Laying next to me as I type this is the one man I truly love, I am in tears as I watch him huff duster. "I know what I'm doing" he says. I recently did some research on huffing and I am shocked at what I read. Terrified because the next time he inhales, may be his last......I need help, how do I get him to stop??? someone please help me, I don't know how much time he las left:-(

How do we help our son???

ScaredParents — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:52:12 GMT

We are scared and do not know what to do. About a month ago we found a blue bullet shapped metal tube in the gameroom and didn't know what it was. Through a later conversation with our oldest son (16) and his friend we realized it was a "Whip It" or capsule of Nitrous Oxide used for whipping cream machines. It is used with a cracker (to pierce the tube) and is displaced into a balloon and inhaled. They laughed about how stupid it is to do. A month later, yesterday, I found another one on our back patio and today I found 24 of them with a cracker and balloons in my sons room. Every one of them was used. We are no longer in denial that it was in fact our son using these but are at a loss of how serious it is or how to handle it. Does he need professional help and where do we obtain this help? Also very concerned as he has Asthma and uses many meds and Albuteral Inhalers daily. Worried about the combination of all this with NOS.

Any info is appreciated. We are scared parents and want to protect our son from any harm. We don't want to ignore this or just accept his word that he will not do it again.

i am extreamly addicted to inhaling deodorant and dont know how to stop.

realydontknowhowtostop — Thur, 26 Aug 2010 05:06:23 GMT

I have had a major addiction to inhaling deodorant for 4 years now, I have managed to stop for months through this time but everytime anything goes wrong in my life I fall into bad habbits. I know its causing me to be depressed and that makes me do it more i also tend to loose my temper easyly now and i hate it, but i just dont know how to stop, as its legal for me to buy body sprays and deodorant and there so easy to get when i feel low, but i no i shouldnt. (at the moment i am going through up to 30+ cans a week it costs soo much) has anyone had or know anyone that has buzzed deodorant and has managed to stop or knows what my first step should be?

gasssss

nickeisenberg — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:29:43 GMT

ugh i LOVE the smell of gas sharpies markers rubbing alcohal sorry for bad spelling im 13 years old lawl anyway i love the smells but when i smell them i dont get a high im glad i dont so i dont get addicted but i dont do it for the high ( i dont get high anyway lucky me ) i do it cus i like the sent o and hand sanitizer soo umm can it effect me still if i dont get high? ty for the answers sorry for typos

My story of abuse

Twistedfaith — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:53:28 GMT

It only seems days ago that my girl friend died from a heroine overdose, it has in fact it has been about 8 months. I had been using other drugs with her for a long time, why is it that dusting stuck with me and not her? Why must i keep doing it, at this point i use almost a can a day, at its worst i used 5-8 cans a day. Three days ago i had the WORST hallucination on duster i have ever had, i was talking to her and to god asking why i could not be with her. Then God said "You can be with her, all you have to do is is die." i jumped down a flight of stairs trying to kill my self. i want this to stop, i need this to stop. i will never forget that hallucination. I don't want help but i know i need it.
my family will not talk to me, my friends won't be seen with me. i just need help and im not sure where to start.

Please if you have anything that you think will help..

The definition of Insanity

Illy — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:55:08 GMT

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to tell my story briefly and ask a few questions.

About six months ago I started using duster. I quickly became addicted and was using ten cans a day within a few months. I am not going to tell a lot of "war stories" but I certainly have a few.

I used to have a rule, "ten by ten" which referred to me stealing ten cans from different stores each day by ten am. I am amazed I wasn't caught. I was chased one time and turned the can upside down and held security at bay. I am not proud of this.

Long story short, I ended up in the psychiatric unit of my local hospital. I was released and went directly to my local store and stole three cans.

I was subsequently arrested three weeks later for a DUI and low-speed chase. I flattened many street signs in the process and got many many charges. I spent a few months in jail. When the Police came to my house they found 150+ empty cans in my house. I did not pay for more than twenty of these cans.

By the grace of God I was taken to a fantastic rehab and I have been clean for fifty days as of today.

I am not going to BS anyone. I have done most drugs. Heavily. I have had chemical dependence problems with benzodiazepines and opiates in the past. Nothing, I mean NOTHING brought me down to a lower place than duster did.

I used to urinate my pants several times a day. I thought it was funny. Towards the end of my addiction I could not walk. My joints were swelled up to the point that I needed crutches in order to steal cans of duster from local stores.

The Jail Doctors said I had Pulmonary Artery Disease. Later at Rehab I was found to have damaged my liver. I have mini seizures out of nowhere even to this day. Limb spasms and what not. And my heart beats like crazy. Like it is pounding out of my chest.

When I was in Rehab my counselor told me of a person who he had once picked up to take him to Treatment. He allowed the client to use duster on the ten hour drive to the Rehab. When they arrived he was DEAD.

I am lucky to be alive. I know this. I was truly sick.

I hope this story can touch someone. I believe that it is an absolute miracle that I am alive.

I am 35 years old. I posess a degree in psychology, criminology, and am a Certified Abuse Counselor. Go figure. The reason I add this is to demonstrate that NO demographic is safe from this terrible drug.

I am unemployed.

People who use duster please take heed: if you use this substance, you have three options-- Jails, Institutions, and DEATH.

Thanks for reading my story. Now some questions I have:

1. Why could I not walk when I was using? It hurt so much to move my body. I know difluroethane displaces oxygen and muscles need oxygen, but my legs were swelled so much I could not wear socks let alone shoes. I have scoured the internet for information on this but cannot find anything substantive.

2. Why does my heart continue to beat so quickly? Should I see a cardiologist?

3. My skin feels wierd. Anyone experience this?

4. WHY is this product on the market? Small air compressors with precision blower attachments are CHEAP and work far better. I cannot believe that ANY company which produces duster does NOT REALIZE that probably 75 percent of their revenues are generated from the PAIN and SUFFERING and DEATH of others? It is INSANE to think otherwise. I am VERY bitter about this. Perhaps one day we can wipe this product off the face of the earth. Yes, I am aware that propellants are in other products...but inhaling PLEDGE is much more difficult and less palatable. I smell a class action lawsuit.

5. Has anyone experienced absolute psychosis and hallucinations from withdrawal like I have?

Thanks everyone. Yours in Recovery,

illy

Im scared!

allison — Thur, 12 Aug 2010 05:34:46 GMT

Im Allison, and ive been inhaling this since i was 12 and i am now 13. The first few times inhaling the computer duster stuff, was ok for me. My " Friend " Faye was really messed up when she first tried it. And as the usual, i pretended i tried to fit in. Then I started to get alot of horrible random nosebleeds, not having a clue what it was from, just 2 days ago i was at a friends house and i decided to go in his bathroom and inhale that stuff, i felt myself feeling very dizzy and my WHOLE body was numb. I was becoming clueless and scared, my friends came running in and saw me screaimg and crying on the floor then i passed out, shortly after that i woke up and i had no clue what was going on then it started coming back to me. Then my sister found the computer duster stuff in my purse and yelled at me saying the bad stuff that can happen to me, and as i got more worried i checked online and found what harm this can actaully do. As i read all the syptoms, I realized i had all of them, and still; I am so scared as to what might happen to me. And i really dont want to hear people telling me to go to the doctor and get help, thats one thing i will not do. I just want people to tell me what I can do MYSELF as to how i can help myself ! and to all you curiouse people wondering what this stuff can do to you, well keep wondering and please dont try it. It helps you with nothing. And you can surely die from it. That is why i am soooo scared !

No where to turn

love71486 — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:48:35 GMT

I don't know what I am doing, or what my purpose is. I am lost here. My fiancee, my wonderful, smart, sweet, loving, 24 year old fiancee had been off on a duster binge for about 8 hours. This has happened before of course, that is how I know. He was inhaling so many cans a day at one point I couldn't count. Then he was clean for a month, then relapsed 4 times in 2 weeks, then clean for a month, then 1 relapse. It's been a week and a half and now he's at it again. I have taken his keys, money, vehicle. I have been nice, I have been mean. I've threatened to kick him out, I've tried everything. He's been arrested more than once, in the ER more than once for this...I don't know what to do. There are so few resources for addiction when you don't have health insurance. Every time this happens he swears to me it will never happen again, that he hates it and he'll never put me through this agonizing pain again. I don't know how many days and nights I have sat up waiting for him until 2, 3, 4, 6 am. I am so scared he is going to die. Every story seems to end the same...there is a high relapse rate and low recovery rate. I don't know what to do. I miss my baby, we are getting married next year and I love him so much. He is such a wonderful man and father, he is my soul mate and very best friend.

Your Brain Vs. Your Computer

DD — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:36:30 GMT

Is life that bad that kids turn to chemicals, poisonous chemicals in all shapes and forms?

I know what suffering is like because of one member of my family's bad decision. It is extremely deep pain & it has altered our lives forever. Nothing will ever be the same. Our family no longer has balance. We are heart broken. I love my son with all my soul, but he made mistakes after mistakes and we struggle to live with it now. He hid it from us which makes it even more painful.

... if you can get the perspective as in your brain is your body's computer. You would not want your computer to willingly be attacked by a virus. It can mess all of your programs and music up. You computer won't run correctly and might shut down and restart when you don't want it to. Wires can fry. Your favorite pictures could be deleted. You will loose all your information. Only certain buttons on your keyboard will work. The cursor freezes. All the work you put into your computer will be lost. The worst, your computer might not ever start back up again.

Your growing and fragile brain is your body's computer. Why attack it with junk and chemicals ? Would you do this to your computer ??? Why do it to your brain ?

Life is important and you only get one chance at it. Good behavior takes work, but it is worth it. From it you will create good thoughts and good feelings. Well, bad behavior...you know what that does...YOU ARE WORTH LIVING A GOOD LIFE.

TOMORROW , I M GETTING HELP....

Lisab — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:10:23 GMT

Its out of control my sniffing sorting of diesel fuel supplement i m going to a therapist and telling them all about this addiction, this addiction is taking over my life and i dont want it anymore.

example... today, i dont know what came over me i sniffed and sorting almost the entire day....i was spraying the stuff and neighbors were complaining of an odor, yeah my odor my inhalant
its seems once i sniff i cant stop i keep doing it
like i want to finish the bottle well its almost finished. i got a new idea, some idea, i bought nasal spray -- i dumped the nasal spray and put the diesel fuel in there... this is insane...

i want to get better, i want to get rid of this demon... i pray for this..
thank you for listening and tomorrow i cant wait to finally tell a therapist about this..........
regards,
lisa

Am I addicted?

Mistica — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:03:25 GMT

When I was in high school, I had tried sniffing nail polish once and admit that I did get a little of a high from it but when I had gotten myself a pet, I was able to stop in fear that he would be affected by the smell of it. He lived for about two years but died near the end of senior year. I didn't start up again until I had started college and also the stress that came with it. I continued off and on throughout but I wondered to myself once if I was addicted to this little habit. For the past year, I have been keeping track personally to see for myself, it seems that I can never go longer than three months and, well, the stress seems to get me to where I pick up the old container and take those few minutes to de-stress myself with it again. I never used to do this to relieve stress, in the past I used to do other things to calm myself like read, play video games, even draw but as I got older, doing those things just didn't do it for me anymore. I'm not the type of person who gets these sudden urges to do this, it just seems that if I become stressed that reaching for it is so easy but I know deep down that sniffing won't make the stress go away, it'll just push it aside for the while until the feeling of getting high is gone...so what I'm wondering is, since I still go back to it, am I addicted?

JOIN ME IN MY CAMPAIGN TO OUTLAW GAS DUSTER

tylersmom — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:13:35 GMT

I just completed writing a letter to the president and CEO of Falcon Safety Products, who were the inventors of compressed-air duster. YES, YOU HEARD IT CORRECTLY - THEY HAVE THE WORD SAFETY IN THEIR NAME. How is that for irony? I wrote it in response to a letter I received from him after I sent a letter to him regarding the death of my son. Basically he said - we put bitterants in their, we support education, there are many positive uses for it, etc. I dared him to come up with one use that was more important than the life of even one person. I told him bitterants were only put in there to make the manufacturer feel better about marketing a lethal product. I told him I would go to my grave begging state Attorneys General, state Departments of Consumer Protection, the US Food and Drug Administration, and whoever else I can get to listen to ban this product or delegate it to the list of controlled substances. PLEASE - WILL YOU ALL JOIN ME IN MY CAMPAIGN? Contact those persons in your state. Contact the President of Falcon Safety Products at the following address:

Philip M. Lapin
Falcon Safety Products
25 ImClone Drive
PO Box 1299
Branchburg, NJ 08876-1299

a legal way to die

vfellers — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:46:58 GMT

I have a 43 year old friend who has Croyns Diasease and became addicted to perscription drugs. He has now become addicted to huffing or dusting. He has been in rehab 4 times and everytime he cycles out and does it again. It is nothing for him to do 25 to 30 cans straight before he falls out and has to be hospitalized and then sent to rehab for 10 days then the cycle starts again. At this rate, especially after what I have read, he probably will kill himself with this computer duster stuff. His Mother stays in despair constantly over this and we are helpless to do anything for him because of his age. I can not beleive that this product continues to be sold so freely. The manufacturers obviously know that they aren't enjoying their record sales because everyone is cleaning thier computers this much. Come on! They have to know. Putting a danger warning on the can is useless as well as limiting the number of cans or the age. I read on here where a lady asked if anyone has gone after the manufacturers and retailers who are knowly selling "death" in a can and I didn't read any answer to her question. Has anyone? Where are the politicians in this discussion? I have spoke with the store managers at Walmart, Office Depot and Staples where he is buying this crap and they all admitted they knew what this stuff is capable of but passed the buck to corporate. To me this is no different than selling a drunk whiskey knowing he is drunk because it is obvious he is impaired and they ring him right up to drive away. Is it going to take the deaths of an important person's child or some other innocent person in a car crash somewhere to get someone's attention?