Diseases

Inhalant Abuse

Illicit use of chemicals and products whose vapors can be inhaled to produce a rapid mind-altering effect. Inhalants include aerosols, gases, and volatile solvents that are often inhaled repeatedly to achieve the short-lived intoxicating effect.

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Abstract

Illicit use of chemicals and products whose vapors can be inhaled to produce a rapid mind-altering effect. Inhalants include aerosols, gases, and volatile solvents that are often inhaled repeatedly to achieve the short-lived intoxicating effect.

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Synonyms

9 entry terms
  • Abuse, Inhalant
  • Abuses, Inhalant
  • Inhalant Abuses
  • Glue Abuse
  • Glue Sniffing
  • Abuse, Glue
  • Abuses, Glue
  • Glue Abuses
  • Glue Sniffings

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Aspects Covered

30 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.

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History Note

2011; for Glue Sniffing, use Substance-Related Disorders 1981-2010; Glue Sniffing was a heading 1969-1980

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Tree Numbers

  1. C25.775w.467
  2. F03w.900w.467

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NLM Classification

WM 270

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Inhalant Abuse. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D058545. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D058545
  2. Inhalant Abuse. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2248357