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  • Title: Adolescent abuse of typewriter correction fluid.
    Author: Greer JE.
    Journal: South Med J; 1984 Mar; 77(3):297-8, 301. PubMed ID: 6701612.
    Abstract:
    A new form of substance abuse in adolescents is the inhalation of fumes from typewriter correction fluids (Liquid Paper, Wite-Out, Snopake, etc), which are composed of various chlorinated solvents, to induce euphoria. Medical complications of such abuse and medical management of acute toxic episodes are discussed herein, along with suggestions for controlling this substance abuse.
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