A medicinal substance that is administered as a vapor into the upper respiratory passages.
Recent use or short-term, high-dose exposure to volatile inhalants often leads to maladaptive behavioral or psychological changes such as belligerence, assaultiveness, apathy, and impaired judgment. Accompanying physical signs include dizziness, incoordination, slurred speech, unsteady gait, euphoria, lethargy, psychomotor retardation, and blurred vision.
A remedy or drug that is breathed in through the nose or mouth.
Volatile chemicals that evaporate easily, that when inhaled produce psychoactive effects.
A medicinal substance which is breathed in.
Substances that give off vapors or fumes that can be inhaled.
Breathable chemicals that produce psychoactive, or mind-altering, effects. Using these drugs is also known as glue sniffing, huffing, and solvent abuse. Inhalants are not usually thought of as drugs since they are produced for very different purposes.
Substances that can be inhaled into the body through the lungs. They may be delivered in traditional form dissolved in hot water and inhaled in the steam, or as an aerosol a suspension of very small liquid or solid particles in the air. The latter are now usually delivered by devices in which the aerosol is kept under pressure in a small hand-held cylinder and delivered in required doses by a release mechanism.
Inhalants are volatile nondrug substances (often ordinary household products) that have druglike effects when inhaled.
Any drug that is breathed in through the nose.