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Glue solvents: abuse and harmful effects on health

In Brazil, glue sniffing has been of growing concern due to the increasing number of abusers, most of them children and teen-agers of low socio-economic level. This review article presents some aspects of this kind of abuse, with special emphasis on the deleterious effects of acute and/or chronic solvent inhalation (glue-sniffing).

Substance abuse occurrence; Solvents


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