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solvent abuse
noun
The use, often dangerous, of solvent chemicals, such as industrial solvents and household solvents, for their neuropsychological effect, hallucinogenic, stimulant, or stupefying.
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She has also to give a talk on "how drugs, smoking, solvent abuse and excess alcohol can affect your health".
For instance, Tony Jupp, chief underwriter at Norwich Union, points to the standard exclusion for "alcohol or solvent abuse" for critical illness cover.
Initially, their friendship was based around a shared taste for alcohol and solvent abuse, but, in 1974, Cummings bought a guitar with the proceeds from his job as a construction worker, the trio formed the Ramones, with drummer Tommy Erdelyi - and changed their surnames accordingly.
Case reports involving both solvent abuse and occupational exposure, and experimental animal data have also been reviewed as supporting data.
Solvent abuse increases a person's desire for other drugs, boosts the risk of depression and suicide, and irreversibly damages the brain, heart, kidney, and liver.
In another, Super Shamou discouraged solvent abuse.
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These people are solvent abusers.
The exclusion criteria were significantly impaired activities of daily living (ie, dementia), established psychiatric disorder, cancer, drug abuse, solvent exposure and anoxic brain damage including stroke.
Poisons are classified by such uses as pesticides, household products, pharmaceuticals, organic solvents, drugs of abuse, or industrial chemicals.
"I don't really remember exactly [when I first used]," he explained in a Tim Horton's on Portage Avenue, citing years of alcohol abuse and frequent solvent use as a child for his hazy memory.
Solvents inhaled as drugs of abuse (e.g. toluene, 1-1-1-trichloroethane) may act at sites that overlap with those recognising alcohols and volatile anaesthetics to produce potentiation of glycine receptor function.
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