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- ANESTHETIC:
- An agent that causes loss of sensation or unconsciousness.
- BAGGING:
- Breathing mind-altering fumes from a substance sprayed or placed inside a plastic or paper bag, with the bag held tightly around the mouth.
- HUFFING:
- Breathing mind-altering fumes from a cloth that has been soaked in a volatile substance then stuffed into the mouth.
- INHALANTS:
- Legal household, industrial, medical, and office products that are volatile (vaporize or evaporate easily), producing chemical vapors. Abusers inhale concentrated amounts of these vapors, by various means, to alter their consciousness.
- SNIFFING OR SNORTING:
- Inhaling intoxicating vapors, through the nose, from a volatile substance such as an anesthetic gas, industrial or household solvent, art supply, or aerosol propellant.
- SUDDEN SNIFFING DEATH (SSD) SYNDROME:
- Fatal cardiac arrest that results, under certain conditions, after someone deeply inhales a volatile chemical for its intoxicating effects. Death occurs within minutes.
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