Leave It to the Tobacco Industry to Call Inhaling 43 Known Carcinogens “Refreshing”!

Have you ever wondered what some of those chemicals are?  Here is a short list:

If you think “huffing” is just something the Three Little Pigs had to watch out for, the wolf may come knocking at your door.  Huffing, bagging, and sniffing are terms for inhalant use, a cheap, legal and accessible way that young people in Abilene are getting high.  On March 16, The Region 2 Prevention Resource Center and the National Inhalant Prevention Coalition (NIPC) will kick off a week-long campaign to raise awareness of the dangers and popularity of this deadly practice.

Many parents diagnosed with mental illness worry about whether they should tell their children, and if so, how to begin talking to their children about their mental illness. Research shows that in families where there is a mother or father with mental illness, the children, even young children, in those families are able to better understand how mental illness affects their parent’s behavior if the parent talks with them about their mental illness.