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KMID : 0438319930020010106
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Pusan Journal of Psychiatry
1993 Volume.2 No. 1 p.106 ~ p.112
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Clinical Features of Bond Inhalation
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Abstract
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Department of Psychiatry, Pusan Medical Center It is an overiew about clinical features of Bond inhalation. The intentional inhalation of volatile substances began over a century ago. Not until the rise of drug culture in the 1960s, however, a
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number of people began to use a broad spectrum of volatile substance to alter their mood. Among the many chemicals that have been abused, Toluene has been the main substance involved in glue sniffing. Toluene exerts an excitatory effect on the
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nervours system, followed by a depressive impairments have been reported in some cases of Toluene abuse, but their incidence is not known. Most inhalants and solvents are vasodilators, but cerebral blood flow is decreased by chronic abuse. The
Toluene
abusers showed significantly poor performance in tests of memory and in the Halsted Reitan neuropsychological battery. Solvents have been abused to produce a clinical renal acidosis. Concurrent alcohol abuse may excerbate organ damage, especially
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liver. Abnormality of blood and bone marrow suppression can develop. Sudden death in inhalant abusers can occur by direct cardiac arrhythymia, asphyxiation, aspiration of gastric contents, and physical traumas.
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