Legit it’s how my oldest brother friend found out about paint fumes and got addicted.
He only got off it after spending 5+ yrs in the army.
He kept re-enlisting till they said to retire.
He now is a welder.
Worst part of it is his family business is a paint store it’s how he had such easy access to it.
He blames the school for actually teaching kids how to do it.
True. I mean, you can pretty safely just tell kids not to smoke ANYTHING and you’ve covered a lot of drugs without being specific. And there aren’t really any healthy or legitimate reasons to smoke anything. Telling kids not to take pills that don’t come from a doctor or their parents/teacher/etc is pretty safe although that could have some unintended side effects and maybe be too rigid for some legitimate pocket cases I’m not really sure if but may exist. Pills are also harder because pill vs. candy can be a hard one, and sometimes people use words- including candy, to refer to pills. Many pills even look like candies. Ecstasy often looks just like the candies that (used to?) come in toys and models from Asia, steroid pills are often called “vitamins” as a euphemism.
It doesn’t help either that often times people aren’t sure what is or isn’t a drug. There are some people who think creatinine or other supplements used commonly in fitness are actually steroids, and newer drugs like Kratom often confuse people (“if it was a drug, how come I can buy it at the store?”) before they cracked down, in the USA diet pills often contained amphetamines and similar analogs- in some countries it is still legal to buy products that contain certain steroid or amphetamine compounds.
But by the time you get to things like inhalants and oxygen deprivation highs and things like that.... it’s very to hard to be vague. You can’t tell kids not to breath, or not to sniff things, or that “fumes” are a drug. Lots of things are ok to smell, cookies and flowers and such. And lots of things have fumes, and the two extremes are the kid who freaks out places like the gas station thinking just breathing there will make them an addict; and the more likely scenario which actually DID happen with DARE- the kids might just go the opposite way and think that you’re just telling them broad overly cautious BS, and figure that most of what you said is crap since they’ve safely done it or seen others do it safely.
He only got off it after spending 5+ yrs in the army.
He kept re-enlisting till they said to retire.
He now is a welder.
Worst part of it is his family business is a paint store it’s how he had such easy access to it.
He blames the school for actually teaching kids how to do it.