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Date: March 11, 2004
Media Contact: NIPC:        Harvey Weiss 1-800-269-4237 SAMHSA:  SAMHSA Media 301-443-8956

 

 

More Than 2.6 Million Youths 12-17 Have Used Inhalants

Recommendations for Detecting Death from Inhalants Will Be Unveiled

  The National Inhalant Prevention Coalition, with sponsorship from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), will hold a press briefing on March 18 to unveil new guidelines for medical examiners, coroners, and pathologists to recognize, document and accurately report inhalant deaths.  Inhalants can kill a user even on first use.  SAMHSA will also release new data on inhalants use among youths, obtained from the 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, and the Partnership for a Drug-Free America will provide new information on increased inhalant use among children in the sixth and eighth grades.

WHO:

   
 

John P. Walters, Director, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy  
 

Charles Curie, Administrator, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration  
 

Timothy P. Condon, Deputy Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse

 

Harvey Weiss, Executive Director, National Inhalant Prevention Coalition
 

Stephen J. Pasierb, President and CEO, Partnership for a Drug-Free America
 

Jane C. Maxwell,  Research Professor, Gulf Coast Addiction Technology
Transfer Center, University of Texas
 

Kim Manlove and Marissa Manlove, parents of an Indiana High School boy who died from inhalant use
  WHEN: 

March 18, 2004 at 9:30 A.M.
 

WHERE:  

National Press Club, Room, 1st Amendment Room

14th and F Streets NW

Washington, D.C.
 
 
 

SAMHSA, a public health agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the lead federal agency for improving the quality and availability of substance abuse prevention, addiction treatment and mental health services in the United States.
 
 

 

 

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