They ask to prohibit sale of inhalants to minors

• April 25, 2024

Carlos Tena, commissioner of the National Council against Addictions proposes a new reform in the General law of health that prohibits the sale of inhalants in tlapalerías to minors, newspaper Milenio reported.

The use of inhalants by adolescents and children has spread to all socioeconomic levels, mainly between the ages of 12 to 17 years, and although its use is less than 0.5%, which is a small percentage compared to 2% of cocaine use and 4% of marijuana, it is necessary to pay attention to the item.

The Secretary of Health, José Ángel Córdova Villalobos said that depending on the National Survey of Addictions that will be conducted in the first half of 2011, it is intended to strengthen the penalties for establishments that sell these products, and that in the case of alcohol and tobacco, will be even stricter.

Tena said the growing concern arises because the presence of young people who use inhalants, It was previously an identified low-income group, and now its use has spread to higher socioeconomic levels. Another concern that he pointed out is that not only are the inhalants, but they also begin to mix with other types of drugs  

According to National Institute of Drug Abuse of the United States, inhalants they are a large group of volatile substances, whose chemical vapors can be inhaled producing psychoactive effects , that is, they alter the mind. The term "inhalants" is used to describe those substances that are rarely or never consumed in a different way.

The most common are volatile solvents, solvents, aerosols, gases of products, Y nitrites.  

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