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Adolescents often overlook the risks of inhalants. Although they can be injured, suffer serious medical effects, or die any time they use inhalants, five in eight 8th-graders do not see great risk in trying them.
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Sources for Safe Riding, Safe Driving

1 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, January 2002. Youth Fatal Crash and Alcohol Facts 2000: DOT HS 809 406, last referenced 12/7/2004. (A print version of this publication was released in 2002.)

2 Ibid.

3 Ibid.

4 National Drunk and Drugged Driving (3D) Prevention Month Coalition. Drunk and Drugged Driving (3D) Prevention Month Planner, last referenced 11/24/04.

 

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Reviewed on 11/15/06