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My Experience with inhalants?

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  1. Mike
    Member

    Ive had a terrible experience with huffy. i am only 16 years old
    Ive done alcohol, weed, amphetamines, and Ecstasy in my life.
    but air duster was a new drug of choice for me, quick, and less trouble.

    i did air duster, and huffed gasoline 16 times before my life changing experience. it made me really high, like more intense than any other drug Ive ever tried, it gave me delusions and distortion of time and color.
    i usually always took one 8 second hit and called it a day.
    but as i started getting more addicted, that changed.
    one night me and my family were watching the super bowl, when i sneaked the air duster into my jacket from the computer desktop. i went outside, it was night time. i took 3 eight second hits, and felt really good for a moment, i even started to hear blasting techno in my head, then i got paralyzed and fell chin first into the pavement. long story short. i shattered the left side of my chin and dislocated both of my jaws. i was at Baylor for two weeks. i had a titanium plate inserted into my chin with 5 bolts. i will have this plate in my face for the rest of my life, not to mention the pain i suffered at the time of the incident and after it. so please take my story as a reason not to do inhalants. EVER

    Posted 2 years ago #

  2. jo
    Member

    Mike, you were a lucky one. It's a wonder you hadn't stopped breathing completely long before that. I'm so glad you learned your lesson before it killed you.

    I've been a Paramedic for 14 years, at least an EMT for 16, and I have lost count of how many perfectly healthy teens and twenties I've worked in cardiac arrest who didn't survive, or had to outright pronounce dead and tell their parents that the child they raised would never be seen alive again from overdosing on drugs in general, and huffing in particular. I'm not going to list all the things can be used to huff, because I don't want to give anyone ideas, but if you're a parent, and you're reading this, find out and talk to your kids about it.

    Huffing may give you a high, but EVERY time you do it, you damage your brain. The high comes from deplacing oxygen from blood so the brain doesn't get the oxygen it needs to stay alive. It's truly a crapshoot each and every time as to whether this will be the time you withold oxygen one second too long or kill more brain cells than your body can recover from.

    So, next time you think about huffing, think about your parents standing in their own living room, after finding your lifeless body, calling 911, panicking and screaming, watching medics trying to resuscitate you while they beg you outloud to 'breathe, just breathe', only to be told that you've been down too long and there's nothing else to do. Their child is dead.

    I want to ask any teens/20s reading this who huff to ask someone for help. BEFORE you take the next hit. Please. I'm so tired of seeing how little regard you have for your own life. I VALUE YOU. Please value yourself.

    Thank you for bringing this out Mike. Please use your second chance to tell as many kids as you can what WILL happen.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  3. Ace C
    Member

    Mike, first, I would like to thank you for sharing this story. Often people feel isolated or alone in their experiences with inhalants. Most people don't know that 1 in 5 teens has abused inhalants by age 13.

    The Alliance for Consumer Education (ACE) has some great resources should your friends or family want more information about inhalant abuse. They are included in the sources section below.

    Finally, how is your recovery going? It would be if you kept us updated through yahoo or our message board.

    Posted 2 years ago #

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