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Inhalant Dependence

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Many products readily found in the home or workplace, such as spray paints, glues, and cleaning fluids, contain volatile substances that have psychoactive properties when inhaled. Inhalants also include gases, such as ether and nitrous oxide, and alkyl nitrites, such as amyl and butyl nitrite. These substances are used at room temperature by volatilization or from a pressurized container and do not include drugs that are sniffed after burning or heating, such as crack cocaine.

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  1. East Central HealthNet Family Medicine Residency Program, Meridian, Mississippi, USA

    H. Thomas Milhorn MD, PhD (Director, Didactics Section, Formerly Professor of Family Medicine, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior)

  2. University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, Mississippi, USA

    H. Thomas Milhorn MD, PhD (Director, Didactics Section, Formerly Professor of Family Medicine, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior)

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Milhorn, H.T. (2018). Inhalant Dependence. In: Substance Use Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63040-3_11

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