TOXICS INFORMATION PROJECT (TIP)
Liberty
Goodwin, Director
P.O. Box 40572,
Providence, RI 02940
Tel.
401-351-9193, E-Mail: TIP@toxicsinfo.org
Website: www.toxicsinfo.org
(Lighting the Way to Less Toxic Living)
NIPC / NIPAW INHALANT UPDATE
MARCH 18TH, 2007
Online parent training developed
by the New England Inhalant Prevention Coalition (which was created with CSAP
funding) can be found at http://www.inhalantabusetraining.org
There is a general training format and several geared to individual states. For
more information you can contact Howard Wolfe, Director of Coalition, by going
to http://www.inhalantprevention.org/.
There is a great deal of information on this site (eventually I’ll have links
to this on our web site).
Another source for an excellent
power point inhalant show (with script) developed by Isabel Burk at the Health
Network: http://www.healthnetwork.org/
Mention this blurb for a discount.
Another great resource is the
Speaker Presentations for NIDA’s Inhalant Abuse Among Children and
Adolescents: Consultation on Building an International Research
Agenda. You can find this at:
http://international.drugabuse.gov/meetings/inhalant_presentations.html
The presentations are slide shows
that y’all might wish to review.
If anyone is interested in the issue
of inhalant abuse gender differences, please go to the Monitoring the Future
site at http://www.monitoringthefuture.org/new.html
and look at Volume 1, Tables D 10, D 11 and D 12. One of the things to
notice is that, at the eighth grade level, female inhalant abuse has exceeded
male’s use every year since 1992. Further, when comparing 2004 to 2005,
female use has increased while male use has declined (the same is true for 10th
graders).
Most states are included in CDC’s
YRBSS = Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System which can be found at http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/yrbs/
. From there you can look up inhalant statistic, by several different
parameters, for your state as well as compare your state to other states. The
findings from this program indicate:
Lifetime
Inhalant Use
Nationwide, 12.4% of students had
sniffed glue, breathed the contents of aerosol spray cans, or inhaled any paints
or sprays to get high one or more times during their life (i.e., lifetime
inhalant use) (Table 34).
Overall, the prevalence of
lifetime inhalant use was higher among female (13.5%) than male (11.3%)
students; higher among white female (14.8%) than white male (12.0%) students;
and higher among 9th grade female (17.3%) and 10th grade female (14.9%) than
9th grade male (11.0%) and 10th grade male (11.6%) students, respectively.
Overall, the prevalence of
lifetime inhalant use was higher among white (13.4%) and Hispanic (13.0%) than
black (6.8%) students; higher among white female (14.8%) and Hispanic female
(13.5%) than black female (6.2%) students; and higher among white male
(12.0%)and Hispanic male (12.5%) than black male (7.4%) students.
Overall, the prevalence of lifetime inhalant use was higher among 9th grade (14.1%) than 11th grade (11.4%) and 12th grade (10.1%) students; higher among 10th grade (13.2%) than 12th grade (10.1%) students; and higher among 9th grade female (17.3%) and 10th grade female (14.9%) than 11th grade female (11.6%) and 12th grade female (9.3%) students. Prevalence of lifetime inhalant use ranged from 8.6% to 17.1% across state surveys (median: 12.2%) and from 5.5% to 17.9% across local surveys (median: 9.7%) (Table 35).
A copy of SAMHSA’s inhalant report
that was released at our Thursday News Conference is at http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/2k7/inhalants/inhalants.cfm
The latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health can be found at http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/latest.htm#Prev
When looking for treatment
facilities go to the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment’s (CSAT)
treatment locator at http://www.findtreatment.samhsa.gov/
If anyone knows of an inhalant treatment facility, please let us know.
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