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Misc Glue

Shaal

Shaal

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Hey guys,

I've inhaled glue (the one that you use to glue patches, to fix your bicycle tires) from a plastic bag once, at a music festival. Someone handed it to me and I tried, stupidly. I had already drank / smoked. It was pretty silly I think. My legs couldn't bear me anymore, I was trying to walk and falling everytime. I was laughing my arse off. When I could walk again, I went to a stand that had books about alternative ways of living etc., I started reading, and I couldn't understand anything. Even when re-reading. Like I was super dumb. No after-effects the next day.

Has anyone tried that?
 
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*no discernible after-effects

Sniffing volatile solvents destroys your brain and there is no "safe" way to sniff glue.
This is a harm minimisation board; you ain't gonna catch many fish here, dude.
 
spacejunk said:
*no discernible after-effects

Sniffing volatile solvents destroys your brain and there is no "safe" way to sniff glue.
This is a harm minimisation board; you ain't gonna catch many fish here, dude.
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Not trying to catch any fishes. :)
I just like to exchange about experiences.
I was young and did some stupid stuff, including this, which I think is really stupid. There's no way I'm ever doing that again.

And I'm conscious about the "no-discernable" after effects. Well, maybe I'm dumber than before I did it. Can't really tell the difference for the moment. That was 6 years ago.

EDIT: By the way, if you think this thread is potentially harmful to others, feel free to delete.
 
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We all do dumb things - I wasn't meaning to have a go at you.

But I don't thinking having a "sniffing glue" thread is really consistent with Bluelight's agenda.
...even if every anecdote is negative, it gives the act a sort of legitimacy that it doesn't deserve.
Like; "he did it, and he's still alive, can type a coherent sentence et cetera".

Same could be said for a lobotomy...others might disagree - but sniffing glue isn't taking a drug; it's engaging in brain damage.

Glue ain't nitrous...or even amyl nitrate.

Solvent abuse is bad news.
 
Has anyone actually got any hard evidence ie peer reviewed journal articles/similar to support the widely held contention on BL that glue/solvent use is any more dangerous/harmful than any of the other drugs that many of us commonly use, like amphetamine/MDMA.

Is there any accepted/replicated data to suggest that '...that was your brain cells burning away one by one...'?
 
serotonin-system said:
Has anyone actually got any hard evidence ie peer reviewed journal articles/similar to support the widely held contention on BL that glue/solvent use is any more dangerous/harmful than any of the other drugs that many of us commonly use, like amphetamine/MDMA.

Is there any accepted/replicated data to suggest that '...that was your brain cells burning away one by one...'?
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Here's one

Here is another

Here is another (go to the part of the study on page 79 for inhalants)

I could keep going... It's called "Google". Give it a try sometime.
 
Shaal said:
Hey guys,

I've inhaled glue (the one that you use to glue patches, to fix your bicycle tires) from a plastic bag once, at a music festival. Someone handed it to me and I tried, stupidly. I had already drank / smoked. It was pretty silly I think. My legs couldn't bear me anymore, I was trying to walk and falling everytime. I was laughing my arse off. When I could walk again, I went to a stand that had books about alternative ways of living etc., I started reading, and I couldn't understand anything. Even when re-reading. Like I was super dumb. No after-effects the next day.

Has anyone tried that?
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yeah... you know this doesn't actually get you high, right? You just feel like that because you're getting way less oxygen-- which is then killing brain cells. You were falling because your muscles didn't have enough oxygen to operate. You were "super dumb" because, again, no oxygen to your brain. If you still do this, stop. Right now.
If you only did it once, there won't be much damage or after-effects. But if one was to keep sniffing... well, consider the above.

peace & stay safe
 
No, toluene, xylene, and other volatiles do actually "get you high", by interfering with cell membranes as well as ion channels and the GABA/NMDA receptors in poorly defined ways. I read that in Australia they have a special gasoline blend with low toluene/xylenes to stop huffing.... Unless you're breathing 100% solvent vapor all the time (bag on the face), you're also getting oxygen.

It's still a stupid thing to do. The metabolites of most of the solvents in glue are not very nice for you. The ones that aren't chronically toxic will make you sick if you get overexposed, though.
 
sekio is right. It's definitely a high and not just oxygen deprivation. Actually toluene is very psychedelic in its effect in a way similar to NO2. I did that shit along with my friends when I was a stupid kid but never did enough to experience any permanent damage...yet. It's not the brain damage I'm worried about. I would have had that by now if I was going to get it. It's the long term effects to the liver and it's a nasty carcinogen too. I could be fine for years and years and then come down with some funky cancer out of nowhere.
If you want to see the long term effects of heavy glue huffing check out some of the youtube clips on Brazilian street kids huffing glue. It's pretty fucked up.
 
Well, I have never done it again and would not want to do it again.
Thanks for the feedback!
 
Glad you're open to other's suggestions. There have been a few people who have came to Bluelight asking about solvent abuse and even when warned against it they still decided to go ahead and use more.

For anyone else coming to the thread with a similar interest, here's what Erowid has to say.

Our understanding of the literature is that there is no such thing as safe use of most volatile solvents, aerosols or other street inhalants : their psychoactive effects may be inseparable from nerve and organ damage.
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Think I was on Erowid by accident before I had a proper interest in drugs, then rediscovered it a bit before coming to Bluelight. :P Has to be one of the best resources for drugs on the web, definitely a helpful site to know about.
 
I will hop on this derailed thread as well and state I found erowid by trying to learn about weed in 2003 when I was a youngin.

I found bluelight because it was either a source or a sister site, I can't remember that was 10 years ago.

Any who the office I work at some of the guys inhale the dust off on rare occasions more for shock value. You know run into the copier room inhale while making copies wobble back to the desk and be sober before anyone can question. I did it once on a "holiday" where people were drinking on the job and screwing around. It's like being drunk for 3 minutes and then baseline with a headache. I did it for the experience did it once and wrote it off. They make nitrous and maybe ether it you want to inhale something no sense in flourinated hydrocarbons which toxic fluorine based metabolites.

Nitrous ftw
 
sekio said:
No, toluene, xylene, and other volatiles do actually "get you high", by interfering with cell membranes as well as ion channels and the GABA/NMDA receptors in poorly defined ways. I read that in Australia they have a special gasoline blend with low toluene/xylenes to stop huffing.... Unless you're breathing 100% solvent vapor all the time (bag on the face), you're also getting oxygen.
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Yeah, it's called "Opal" and is sold in outback indigenous communities where opportunities are few, traditional ways of life have been destroyed by the arrival of colonial white man, and petrol sniffing has become endemic. Whole generations have been ruined by "sniffing" and the social degradation/domestic violence etc that tends to go along with it.
It's really a tragic situation, and the less "abusable" fuel has done little to solve the problems that caused such abuse in the first place.

The really isolated parts of the Australian deserts really struggle to give meaning to these people's lives, and many will do anything to ease the pain of abuse/boredom/cultural destruction that has resulted from the indignities of colonisation - especially in 'dry' towns that have banned alcohol (for similar reasons).
 
Never had something hit me so hard as a huge hit of air duster. Holy shit talk about a heavy high
 
Damn man i remember those days haha good times. Yeah i did alotta that shit back in middle school/ early high school. But soon enough came the real drugs and the high you get from paint an nail polish arent worth it.
 
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