Huffin Whip Cream Gas?

this isn't new. This has been going on for a while, WD-40, Whipped Cream, Hair Spray - anything that has an aerosol or gas...

Other things they try? The choke themselves. That was VERY bothersome when I saw this. Kids try and choke themselves with belts for the "high"...unfortunately, some kids have died from it and it looked like suicide. The families are in deep grief.

COMMUNICATION!! Talk with your kids!! Be a part of their lives!!! Get involved...sad that kids do not understand the ramifications of their actions and think they are INVINCIBLE!! They aren't. They just find out too late.

Parents try too hard to be friends instead of parents....

http://leladavidson.hubpages.com/hub/How_to_Know_if_Your_...

http://www.drgreene.com/fact/fast-facts-about-huffing

The Choking Game...
http://www.connectwithkids.com/tipsheet/2005/235_jun29/ch...

various names
http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f12/kids-choking-themselves...

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This is not new. I personally did this in high school, which was a while ago.

ETA--I just wanted to add that this was a VERY once in a while thing for me during my senior year in high school only. My parents were great & totally on top of things with me, so the fact that I tried this wasn't swayed one way or the other based on parental involvement/love/attention. I didn't do any other drugs or drink alcohol until I was older.

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It isn't new. People have been doing it for many, many years. It is the inhalation of nitrous oxide aka laughing gas.

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This isn't new. I new kids when I was in school doing this (mid 80's). It's sad. I just don't get where the child/parent break down happens. Is it an age, an event ?!?!?

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It came out with the Demi Moore event and I don't understand why kids want to do anything they can, or adults either, where you lose control of your body and mind. If you look up Nirous Oxide online the whippets and canisters look so cool and inviting for kids. One even said 'sexxy' or something like that. Why? I know it's gone on for years and other things they can use or sniff or breathe. I still don't understand 'why'.

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They sell whip-its in every head shop in America. It does make you light headed. Remember Rush. It used to do the same thing. I didn't know back then how dangerous it was and how many vital brain cells it kills.

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It's not new. If you are worried about your kids, treat it like anything you'd caution them about. We explained to the sks that even things that are not stereotypical drugs are still potentially harmful. Kids think "oh, it's just...." and don't realize the dangers.

Simple things like eating dinner together most nights can help you keep connected to your kids and help them stay out of trouble.

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It's not new! I'm 42 and we used to do whip its and nitrous balloons when we went to the beach and jam band concerts in high school and college. It's Nitrous Oxide - laughing gas like you get at the dentist. I'm pretty sure kids have been doing these at least since the 60s or 70s. You'll almost always going to hear or see a nitrous tank and balloons in the lots at music festivals and "hippie" "jam band" shows.

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This has been around for at least 30 years, if not longer. I remember people talking about it when I was a kid. I never did - thought it was wierd.

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Lol, that's not new. It's called a whippet for that reason. It's the same as laughing gas and kids can get it in cartridge form at adult movie stores.

Honestly kids have been doing that since I was 13 so probably before .

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"Whip-its" / "whippets" / "ticking" / and "poor mans crack" were what they were called 10-20 years ago.

They're really dangerous, along with "dustits", nitrous tanks, and other inhalents since there's no filter to pass through. Lots of brain damage. Far more than most street drugs.

They're used by the same crowd who "Robo" (drink an entire bottle of robotussin in order to hallucinate), smoke cigarettes or joints dipped in embalming fluid, or huff other chemicals.

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As mentioned, it is not new. A guy I knew in grade school that got into in high school and actually died from it.

Just yesterday I was talking to another parent at our school. He works in a large grocery store and says they have problems with teenagers coming in and actually huffing from whipped cream cans right there inside the store. I was in shock and he assured me it's true -- they actually have the gall to shoplift the cans, go into the store bathroom and huff it right there and then. So it not only goes on (and has for a long time) but goes on pretty blatantly. It's not new, but I was more shocked at the idea of people being so desperate for a huff that they didn't even bother to leave the store to get high.

When I was 18, I was working in a coffee shop. We had tons of whip cream cans, and the co-worker I worked w/ most, was a "druggie".
She was also a very large girl, more than twice my size.
She would always empty the nitrous from the cans...and I always feared walking back to the kitchen to find her passed out or worse.
Thankfully, she moved on in her "career" before anything bad happened on my watch.
I always spray it out into the sink just in case someone picks through the recycling bins. We already have a drug problem in our neighborhood, no need to add to it.

It is not new. Kids have been doing whip-its (that's what they call it) for years and years...I am 34 years old and when I was in HS kids did this then.

It is scary and VERY stupid! It is just killing brain cells...that's it, that is the extent of the 'high'.

Steve-O from Jackass used to have a problem with it and they did a whole shoe about it a few years back. You can use lots of things to get it too, not just whip cream.

That is what Demi Moore did before they called 911.

So stupid!

Not a new thing. Inhaling any kind of aerosol...people have been doing it since I was young, and probably longer. Addicts will try anything to get high...believe me, I have been there. Very dangerous, however.

Whip-its. Watched my roommate turn blue and fall like a rock after taking a hit some 20 plus years ago. Definitely nothing to mess around with. I think it kills brain cells.

Totally not new. It's called doing whippits. Stupid, cheap, easy to obtain.