How effective are treatment efforts directed at inhalant abuse?
Youth with a history of chronic inhalant use appear to be particularly resistant to outpatient and inpatient treatment efforts. Compared with other forms of drug abuse, they exhibit strikingly high rates of relapse and treatment failure. In particular, longer term treatment efforts appear to be necessary to produce reasonably successful results. While many professionals believe that specific programs and approaches are needed to address inhalant abuse effectively, very few programs are available. In fact, because of the difficult problems associated with inhalant abuse treatment, these youth are specifically excluded from some drug abuse treatment programs. Treatment resource availability for the large number of youth with significant inhalant use problems is at best problematic, and often nonexistent. 11) What are some common misconceptions that impede the prevention of inhalant abuse? The first problematic concept is to have “no concept,” to have no awareness that a problem exists. A
