This program recognizes the nation's best in consumer health information programs and materials. This is NIPC's third national award in recognition of its efforts to reduce and prevent the misuse of common household, school and office products. NIPC received the 1997 Bronze Award in the Total Health Information Category. NIPC, a non-profit organization based in Austin, Texas, offers free inhalant prevention materials and serves as a national clearinghouse for inhalant information. NIPC maintains the only Internet site devoted specifically to raising awareness of the deadly practice of inhalant use.
Materials are available in English and Spanish.
Our winning entry was among the 900 entries judged by a national panel of health information experts. NIPC has also been the recipient of other prestigious national awards, including an International ANDY Distinctive Merit Award for the best public service poster. Both awards were received in 1995. The goal of the NIPC is to raise awareness of inhalant use, since education is the key to preventing this deadly practice. Inhalants are common, legal and extremely toxic products that are misused to get high.