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Sources for Too Many Kids Are Wasting Their Breath on Inhalants

1 ONDCP Drug Policy Information Clearinghouse, April 14, 2004. Fact Sheet: Inhalants, last referenced 5/27/2005.

2 Drug Enforcement Administration. Inhalants, last referenced 5/27/2005.

3 National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign. Inhalants-A Deadly High, last referenced 5/27/2005.

4 Monitoring the Future, December 21, 2004. Data From In-School Surveys of 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-Grade Students, last referenced 3/22/04.

5 Ibid.

6 Ibid.

7 Ibid.

8 National Inhalant Prevention Coalition. Signs of Inhalant Use, last referenced 5/27/2005.

9 National Institute on Drug Abuse, December 2004. NIDA InfoFacts: Inhalants, last referenced 5/27/2005.

 

 
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