Bagging — Spraying or depositing substances into a container and inhaling
the vapors.
• Plastic or paper bags are placed over an individual’s head and the
contents are inhaled.
• Users may also inhale from balloons filled with nitrous oxide and helium.
Chroming — Sniffing or huffing spray paint fumes (particularly metallic ones).
Dusting — Using Inhalants, primarily computer dusting sprays.
Glading — Using Inhalants, primarily air fresheners.
Gluey — One who sniffs or inhales glue.
Huffer — Inhalant user.
Huffing — Inhaling fumes or vapors of a substance in one of the following ways:
• A product is held directly to the mouth and the contents are inhaled.
• A piece of cloth is placed over the product to act as a filter and the
contents are inhaled through the cloth.
• A chemical-soaked rag is held to the face or stuffed in the mouth and
the substance is inhaled.
Inhalant Abuse — The deliberate inhalation by “sniffing” or “huffing” fumes,
vapors, or gases from common household and commercial products for the
purpose of “getting high.”
Kick — Get off the Inhalant/drug habit.
Sniffing — Ingesting substances directly through the nose.
• Inhalants can be “sniffed” from a container.
• Fumes are discharged into soda cans and inhaled from the can.
• Inhalants are placed on sleeves, collars, or other items of clothing and are sniffed over a period of time. This is particularly popular method of disguising inhalation of gasoline fumes.
Snorting — Sniffing Inhalants or cocaine.
Sudden Sniffing Death Syndrome — When death occurs from cardiac arrest
immediately upon using an Inhalant. This can occur the first time, or any
time, an individual experiments with an Inhalant.
