"What, me worry?"
[Thanks to Bockscar for the heads-up!]
Posted on 04/25/2011 7:01:45 PM PDT by GQuagmire
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A Fort Wayne man was charged with inhaling toxic vapors for the 48th time after his wife called police and told them he was huffing paint in their apartment last Thursday
(Excerpt) Read more at wane.com ...
Harry Potter after a rough Saturday night.
"What, me worry?"
[Thanks to Bockscar for the heads-up!]
Can anyone tell me why the use of SILVER paint?
Does the color make a difference?
Found the following research article on the web (color DOES matter):
Purple haze: paint huffing hallucinations differ by hue.
Adolescent solvent abusers reported that different colours of paint cause different types of hallucinations, according to a remarkable study just published in Drug and Alcohol Review.
The research, led by Michael Takagi from the University of Melbourne, was only a small study of 16 young people who sniffed spray paints, but the results are quite striking.
Although all users reported similar levels of pleasure, all those who preferred chrome paint (gold, chrome and silver) reported they used it for the vivid, detailed visual and auditory hallucinations while those who preferred non-chrome paint rarely experienced changes in perception.
The briefly described experiences are as heartbreaking as they are curious:
For example, one young inhalant user had been removed from her home and placed in residential care. She found the situation difficult and did not assimilate well with her housemates, who had also been removed from their homes. Every day, she would go behind the fence of her residential unit and sniff CP [chrome paint]. She reported that faces would appear out of the wooden fence and talk with her, and she felt that these were her only friends. In contrast, another young inhalant user particularly enjoyed playing video games that were available in his residential unit. However, he was only allowed to play for specific amount of time each day. After sniffing CP, he would hallucinate that he was the hero of the video game.
Furthermore, all of the chrome paint users reported that the hallucinations they experienced differed between colours, whereas only a third of the non-chrome paint users said this was the case.
The study didn’t enquire exactly how the experiences differed between colours, and it can’t say how much the differing reported effects are due to different paint ingredients or simply due to their psychological associations, as it was just a survey of effects.
Link to study summary on PubMed.
I do not see any evidence to substantiate that claim.
“Drug abuse and self-medication is a symptom of a sick society, not the cause.”
I’m wondering which societies are not sick, and which do not have addicts, alcoholics and self-medicators? (As near as I can determine, most all societies have these problems—making substances illegal may make a small dent in use, but does not curtail use, as Prohibition and continued drug laws proves)
The initial use may be experimentation to escape and feel good, but at some point continued use IS DUE need to addiction, to avoid painful withdrawal.
“There’s so much good stuff out there that is relatively safe...”
What substances are relatively safe?
Then all societies, past and present, are sick since all of mankind gets high on ingested agents. For a while the Eskimo's were the one exception. But when they began to get alcohol from traders they became alcoholic. Check out Andrew Weil's research on the topic.
All I can think of is the horrible, nauseous migraines I’ll have if I get anywhere near any kind of paint fumes.
I just can’t imagine people doing this.
I have a hard enough time picking colors to paint the rooms. I can’t imagine being high on the stuff and trying to figure out what color to use next.
LOL
That poor woman. She’s stuck with a brain-damaged, permanent adolescent. She’s getting the “sickness” part of “in sickness and in health.” I wonder if she will stand by him or leave.
Hey zippy, you need Lifelock®
I'm guessing Tammy-Faye
The whole country is on [a] dope.
See tagline..
I would guess that the metallic paints have a different chemical agent to help keep the larger metallic particles suspended.
Yes. We all do.
Only Plaid Paint!!
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