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Petrol, paint and other inhalants

by Lee K, Freeburn B, Ella S, Miller W, Perry J, Conigrave K

Abstract

This chapter is from the Handbook for Aboriginal alcohol and drug work and provides information for alcohol and other drug (AOD) workers on petrol, paint and other inhalants, including:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's use of inhalants
• commonly used inhalants
• common ways to use inhalants
• inhalants' effects on the body
• how to recognise harms from inhalants
• how to recognise inhalant dependence and withdrawal
• how to assess a client who uses inhalants
• how to help a client who uses inhalants
• available treatments
• reducing the harms associated with inhalant use if a person cannot or will not quit
• preventing inhalant use.

Abstract adapted from the University of Sydney

Links

• View book: Handbook for Aboriginal alcohol and drug work (PDF - 3.9 MB)
  Petrol, paint and other inhalants - see chapter 9, pages 207-216
• View information: Handbook for Aboriginal alcohol and drug work
• View website: University of Sydney, Indigenous substance misuse program