Dr. Judy Wolman says the best way to prevent a tragedy is to communicate with kids and teach them that playing around with household products can produce lifelong injuries and even death. But furniture polish, paint, insecticides, prescription drugs and even whipped cream can be the poison that kills an older child when used to get a high. Many young people are becoming involved in drug abuse at early ages by taking common, chemical based items and using them destructively. Some kids begin experimenting with these products as early as eight years old according to Carl Sherman with Pediatric News. The chemicals and gases in products that are huffed and sniffed can be very dangerous and even cause instant death.
Prescription medication is another means for obtaining a legal , inexpensive high.
It has been discovered that Ritalin, for example, can be crushed into a powder and snorted. Experts say parents are often unaware that young children are experimenting with under the counter drugs. Kids take the whip cream can all the time and they like suck the nitrates out of them. In the age of the internet, shopping on-line has become commonplace. You can buy practically anything including prescription drugs, alcohol and tobacco .