Talk:Intoxicative inhalant/Archive 1

message: It was requested above that information about medical inhalants, such as those used to treat asthma, be added to the article -- Beland 17:30, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Medical inhalants

message: If anyone wants to add to or improve this article, you might want to check out some of Erowid's articles on this, at http://de1.erowid.org/chemicals/inhalants/index.html or  http://de1.erowid.org/psychoactives/policy/policy_writing6.html The 2nd link, by Consumer reports, gives a history of inhalants in the US. --Xyzzyplugh 19:34, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional information on inhalants

message: I've commented out the gold huffing picture as it seemed more worthy of uncyclopedia than wikipedia. If somone really wants to include it (but please just find a better one), at least there should be a mention of gold paint sniffing in the article. Piet 09:52, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gold sniffing picture 

message: Inhalents is something that i have heard about from some of my friends, I know that they are participating in these acts of inahling substances. There focus seems to be mainly on inhaling "Keyboard air duster". I had a few questions. Will they ever be able to stop? Are there any death stories on inhaling? How can this product kill you? What does it do to your body? How long do you have to be doing "keyboard duster" for it to really effect your body? How can i help my friends to stop doing it?
-AH
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:I myself have no specifics, but inhaling toxic fumes can lead to death and often does. I'm not sure where you live, but check out your yellow pages or just google and you'll probably be able to find a drug prevention organisation you could ring and get info and maybe some advice on how to deal with your friends. Good luck. DarkSideOfTheSpoon 16:05, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Keyboard air duster

message: The Petrol sniffing in Australia article is self-evidently not written from a global perspective, and I don't think the subject matter is sufficiently broad or diverse to warrant separate "Petrol sniffing in Country X" articles.  Perhaps there's a case for a "Petrol sniffing" article distinct from "Inhalant" covering this particular variety of solvent abuse, but I think that, at the moment, the "Inhalant" article can be used to cover it. Tevildo 02:15, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The statutory two weeks have come and gone, and I've completed the merge.  I've created a new "Patterns of Usage" section and split it up by country, and changed to the standard templates for citations; the article text is basically unchanged otherwise. Tevildo 03:00, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge - [[Petrol sniffing in Australia]] 

message: I had to delete this from the article:
=== South East Asia and Africa ===  	 
- 	Dung sniffing has been noted as a problem in several countries in South East Asia such as Thailand and Malaysia among poor and homeless people. Animal or human dung is placed into a plastic bag or tin and left out in the sun where it starts to decompose, releasing methane gas, which has narcotic properties. Police were unsure of what action could be taken, given that dung is not illegal and would be problematic to restrict supplies. 
	 
- Dung sniffing has also been seen in some African countries (see Jenkem). Glue sniffing is also a problem in these countries, with dung sniffing generally being a last resort by people too poor to afford glue.
The citation URL was http://www.prn2.usm.my/mainsite/bulletin/nst/2000/nst16.html 
Go to the main domain, and it becomes obvious that is NOT a legitimate source. There isn't even a New Sunday Times Malaysia. Why didn't anyone else catch this? It's been up for a while.
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Actually this does seem to be legitimate, it has been a problem in Africa for 10 years according to the BBC who are generally held to be a reputable source! Meodipt 11:54, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pay Attention People 

message: - 	Dung sniffing has been noted as a problem in several countries in South East Asia such as Thailand and Malaysia among poor and homeless people. Animal or human dung is placed into a plastic bag or tin and left out in the sun where it starts to decompose, releasing methane gas, which has narcotic properties. Police were unsure of what action could be taken, given that dung is not illegal and would be problematic to restrict supplies. 
	 
- Dung sniffing has also been seen in some African countries (see Jenkem). Glue sniffing is also a problem in these countries, with dung sniffing generally being a last resort by people too poor to afford glue.
The citation URL was http://www.prn2.usm.my/mainsite/bulletin/nst/2000/nst16.html 
Go to the main domain, and it becomes obvious that is NOT a legitimate source. There isn't even a New Sunday Times Malaysia. Why didn't anyone else catch this? It's been up for a while.
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Actually this does seem to be legitimate, it has been a problem in Africa for 10 years according to the BBC who are generally held to be a reputable source! Meodipt 11:54, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  South East Asia and Africa 

message: This is a very poor article. There are barely any citations and it implies that if you do this your going to die.
I only wanted to know about solvent abuse how it is known as "glue sniffing" as i had homework for school on drugs! i was very dissapointed when wikipedia didn't have an article about this topic.
:Well, constructive criticism is always welcome on Wikipedia, but Wikipedia is a free project, so the answer to why doesn't this article exist, or why isn't this article better is always Why don't you take the time to improve Wikipedia yourself, rather than criticizing hardworking volunteer editors?. Well, that's my $0.20 centavos. As for factual accuracy, I agree that the article needs more citations, and clarification between dangerous (carcinogenic, organ-damaging, etc..) inhalants and harmless ones (air?), but what facts, exactly, are being disputed? Personally, I don't like seeing the Factual Accuracy template on an article without a clearly defined complaint. - Eric 07:07, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I've gone ahead and tried to make some bold changes to make this article more NPOV, and to distinguish MEDICAL and PSYCHOACTIVE inhalant use. How about a consensus vote to remove the TotallyDisputed tag and, if need be, replace it with specific-section disputes? - Eric 08:22, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

text: * Remove: I'll start with my vote. Eric 08:22, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

text: * Remove: per Eric.  PStrait (talk) 08:59, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: factual accuracy disputed

message: Kids Huff Freon to Get High from KFVS. I'm just dumping the link here. __meco 21:52, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Freon huffing in the news 

message: There is a clip of an articulate female social worker at the end of one of the special features on the DVD of Bus 174 who claims to have tried glue herself at some point and found that it functions as a highly effective appetite suppressant, but this article presently contains no information on the use of glue by street children as an appetite suppressant when they haven't managed to eat. MaxEnt 06:48, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hunger 

message: Under the "see also" section it mentions "kitten huffing". Clicking on this link takes you to the "uncyclopedia" page on wikipedia. Does someone want to remove this? Tsarnick 02:26, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kitten huffing