Two new studies offer insight into the factors that coincide with adolescent inhalant use in the U.S., a dangerous pastime ...

American teens view sniffing inhalants as less dangerous than they did five years ago, suggesting a greater willingness to try "huffing," concludes a national survey released Monday. Seventy-seven ...

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Changes in the expression of genes may be the reason why people who abuse inhalants, such as spray paint or glue, quickly develop a tolerance, biologists have discovered. This is the first study to ...

Inhalant use is the deliberate inhalation or "sniffing" of common, legal substances to achieve a mind-altering state referred to as a "high. Inhalants are products with a variety of industrial, ...

alarming trend -- that preteens and young teens who use drugs chose inhalants as a "gateway" drug to other illicit drugs. The findings released at the National Inhalant Prevention Coalition's latest ...

Dustin Gulley knows the dangers of inhaling some common household items. "It's immediate gratification," Gulley said. "It's the most intense buzz I've everhad. It almost makes you go into a blackout ...

For years, the popular TV commercial with fried eggs and the slogan 'This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs' worked to discourage conventional drug use among young Americans. But today ...

WASHINGTON — Fewer teens are sniffing glue, lighter fluid, spray paint, shoe polish and other easy-to-find substances, a government study said Monday. But the study said the number of adolescents who ...