It is an opinion editorial, an article written by a sister of someone who died from inhalant abuse. At I lost my 13 year-old brother to inhalant abuse. He died in my arms at the county hospital, and there was nothing that the doctors could do. He sniffed his way to his own death. He didn't know that inhalants could kill him.
Inhalant abuse is deadly serious.
By starving the body of oxygen or forcing the heart to beat more rapidly and erratically, inhalants can kill sniffers - too many of whom are people around my brother's age. If inhalant use continues over a period of time, your body can develop a tolerance to the drug. The user is at much greater risk of suffering the long-term effects of using inhalants once he or she develops a tolerance. Inhalants are dangerous. I wish that I could have told my brother all of these things.