Spray Can

Huffing! I want to talk to you parents and kids about something very serious. We recently heard about a girl in our town, who had a fatal car accident at about four in the afternoon. Her car ran into a tree and she died. She was only seventeen years old.

When the police came to the scene of the accident, they found her slumped body in the car and many cans of compressed air spray, in the car. They were the kind that are used to blow the dust off of computer keyboards.

Later, her parents found out that she was doing something called huffing when she was driving and that is why she crashed into the tree. Her parents later admitted that she had been cyber-bullied and they worried that she might have been depressed.

There are so many kids who breathe in these chemical vapors in order to get high and it is so very dangerous because it causes brain damage or death-even the first time! Sometimes kids do this because they are being bullied into doing it. Sometimes they do it to feel better about themselves because they have low self esteem.

Please, if you know anyone who is or might be huffing, get them help!!! Please!

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