Harm Reduction I wrote a book on inhalants, free unlimited copies inside, please help this spread!

[Asante]

I wrote a harm reduction book on Inhalants, it primarily focuses on people who help children and youths, such as parents, teachers, pastors, outreach workers etc, right up to medical professionals, regarding the use of inhalants. The main focus of the book are the many poor, often homeless lost children on the garbage pails and in the slums of developing nations, but it is equally instructive for a parent or teacher encountering huffing issues in the midst of society anywhere in the world.

Focus is on harm reduction with a minimum availability of resources on the outer edges of medical care, and what lay people themselves can do.

In empathic preparation for this book, the sacrifice was made to huff a 100ml bottle of diethyl ether under controlled conditions (resulting in vomiting) in comparison with the experience of 1mg/kg oral Memantine as a related NMDA antagonist with an indeed partially overlapping experience profile, to no ill effect.

It is a pure harm reduction book for adults worldwide to join hands and help the children and youths facing this horrific substance abuse that frequently impairs the functioning of users for life, if it does not kill them outright.

Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover are available on Amazon and Amazon derived marketplaces worldwide
a free-to-spread, print-ready PDF Freebook version is available on Omnicyclion.org at no cost, ads or registration

I have cast this work in the Public Domain and minimized cost of the Kindle and Paperback while keeping the PDF Freebook completely unlimited. Please help this book spread, please review it where you buy it, please do your thing with it. If Bluelight would like to feature it or host it in whatever way, I gladly surrender my work to it. This is about helping kids in a horrible pickle from being maimed for life by neurotoxic industrial chemicals for lack of proper drugs or care for them and the issues they are facing.

I was an 11yo ether child - safe only by my above average intelligence and a stroke of luck. Others who start out on solvents, glues, cleaning products and the like are not so lucky and often pay a price for life.

Let us, who know better from direct experience, help those around them, help them better.

I'm not going to sit in silence looking away, doing nothing.

 

[PenguinWithNapalm]

Nice work man. One of the most destructive inhalants I’ve seen is air duster. I once knew a guy that went through like 5-6 cans a day. He would throw an empty can in the dumpster then jump back in trying to suck out the tiniest little bit out. I’ve seen people make themselves retarded with it. Although to be fair they might not have been too bright to begin with. I messed around with it. Few times when I was like 14. I did too much one time while standing up and passed out and hit my face against the corner of a wall and had a line down my face for a week. Never touched it again.

 

[Asante]

More start out with inhalants than like to admit it. Something like ether or fluorohydrocarbons like duster is fairly clean cut pharmacologically, but theres people huffing petroleum fractions, with neurotoxic surprises like hexane or aromatic rings that may induce cancer, or the solvent mixes of industrial products. As a discerning 11yo I stuck to substances used in human anaesthesia, but i was lucky too, plain and simple. Let us prevent the younger generations, especially those living devoid of proper care, from making costly mistakes that will haunt them for the rest of their lives.

"Duster" is notorious for "sudden death", where a heart just trips up and stops working. Ether was a more calculated risk ut frankly super scary to do, as a grown adult versed in toxicology.

Inhalants are drugs of despair in developing nations.

 

[PenguinWithNapalm]

More start out with inhalants than like to admit it. Something like ether or fluorohydrocarbons like duster is fairly clean cut pharmacologically, but theres people huffing petroleum fractions, with neurotoxic surprises like hexane or aromatic rings that may induce cancer, or the solvent mixes of industrial products. As a discerning 11yo I stuck to substances used in human anaesthesia, but i was lucky too, plain and simple. Let us prevent the younger generations, especially those living devoid of proper care, from making costly mistakes that will haunt them for the rest of their lives.

"Duster" is notorious for "sudden death", where a heart just trips up and stops working. Ether was a more calculated risk ut frankly super scary to do, as a grown adult versed in toxicology.

Inhalants are drugs of despair in developing nations.

So you were huffing ether at age 11?

 

[Asante]

Yes sirree, at the pristine age of 11 I was huffing ether and building bottle rockets and firecrackers with household chemicals graciously provided by a local druggist, as was customary in the 1980s.

I was guided by my father's Higher Technical School chemical textbooks and pharmacology textbooks from bygone eras I bought at fleamarkets.

Revisiting ether 40 years later was genuinely scary, never again!, but i had to make a contrasting profile between sincere huffing and Memantine, and get some firsthand experience huffing as a mature well studied adult under controlled conditions with a flask of reagent grade diethyl ether. Seriously don't do that, it was a genuine sacrifice.

I had a registered nurse able to perform CPR in the room with me. He was not amused.

 

[PenguinWithNapalm]

Yes sirree, at the pristine age of 11 I was huffing ether and building bottle rockets and firecrackers with household chemicals graciously provided by a local druggist, as was customary in the 1980s.

I was guided by my father's Higher Technical School chemical textbooks and pharmacology textbooks from bygone eras I bought at fleamarkets.

Revisiting ether 40 years later was genuinely scary, never again!, but i had to make a contrasting profile between sincere huffing and Memantine, and get some firsthand experience huffing as a mature well studied adult under controlled conditions with a flask of reagent grade diethyl ether. Seriously don't do that, it was a genuine sacrifice.

that is wild. I was curious about drugs at that age but the most I ever did until 14 was smell sharpies lol

 

[Asante]

I'm not saying I'm a genius but, high intelligence kicked in for me at a very young age. As a child i was a prodigy, as I grew up it normalized a bit. I was one of those young edison nerds into practical scence.

My life was hell and I needed to cut away from it to not go nuts. That sorta worked, but i profoundly relate to and emphathize with those ghetto kids on the edge of survival. This book is for them.

This one's for the lil troopers in the trenches of a life on the edge. I had PTSD, horrible things were done to me, ether helped me hack it but what I needed was intervention which was not there for me.

 

[PenguinWithNapalm]

Yes sirree, at the pristine age of 11 I was huffing ether and building bottle rockets and firecrackers with household chemicals graciously provided by a local druggist, as was customary in the 1980s.

I was guided by my father's Higher Technical School chemical textbooks and pharmacology textbooks from bygone eras I bought at fleamarkets.

Revisiting ether 40 years later was genuinely scary, never again!, but i had to make a contrasting profile between sincere huffing and Memantine, and get some firsthand experience huffing as a mature well studied adult under controlled conditions with a flask of reagent grade diethyl ether. Seriously don't do that, it was a genuine sacrifice.

I had a registered nurse able to perform CPR in the room with me. He was not amused.

To be honest I always wanted to try ether. I still kinda do. lol of course it was fear and loathing that sparked the interest. That’s cool about the books. I actually stole a whole set of books from a research lab when I was an angst filled teenager that was “the encyclopedia of drugs, alcohol and addictive behavior” that was such a long time ago. I actually still have them. Probably a good chunk of it is outdated now.

 

[Asante]

Having tried ether at an adult age, well versed in different drug effects: Ether is very much like ketamine/MXE/memantine, with specific alcohol like sparkles thrown in. Please don't do ether, use a strong dissociative instead, the two are very close in effect. Ether makes you acutely aware of your heartbeat and hastens it. It is a violation of your lungs to inhale something with such intense scent to it. Don't do it, but of the organic anaesthetics it is relatively of lower risk than most. Out in the boondocks in African emergency hospitals its still occasionally used to put a patient under for a brief intervention if nothing else is available, due to its relative safety profile - but seriously, don't do it.

I think we can safely say we all agree inhalants are bad, i wrote a harm reduction book for primarily lay people in the developing world, where inhalants are a huge problem among the worlds poorest and most destitute, on how to help kids and youths get out if this highly destructive habit, without blaming or shaming but with eye for the patient's needs. I felt like a free, Public Domain, viral booklet to inform lay people on how to help was the way to go.

 

[Asante]

I invite you to, in a lost hour, read through it and comment in the spirit of harm reduction towards helping the most vulnerable at the bottom of recreational drug use and the very edge of even the most basic care they empathically need.

Oh, Allison got with the program and is doing much better now.