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Inhalants comprise a disparate group of mind-altering substances that are classified by their intake route. Despite more than 7 million users, there is a paucity of medical and neuropsychological literature. Only rarely are investigations into inhalant abuse reported in prominent substance abuse journals. This is probably due to multiple factors including (1) difficulty in studying or neglect of the population in which inhalant use is most prevalent, namely, individuals in lower socioeconomic strata; (2) the finding that use rarely occurs in isolation from other polydrug use or exposure to other inhalants; and (3) the fact that these substances are not generally classified as abused drugs because they are commonly available legal products.
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Hartman, D.E. (1998). Behavioral Pharmacology of Inhalants. In: Tarter, R.E., Ammerman, R.T., Ott, P.J. (eds) Handbook of Substance Abuse. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2913-9_18
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