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• Inhalant facts, DrugInfo. More information here.
• Management response to inhalant use: Guidelines for community care and drug and alcohol sector, Mental Health and Drugs Policy Unit, Department of Human Services, Victorian Government. More information here.
• White & Hayman 2006, Australian secondary school students’ use of over-the-counter and illicit substances in 2005, The Cancer Council Victoria. Report prepared for the Drug Strategy Branch, Department of Health and Ageing, Australian Government. More information here.
• Badger B 2005, Can new non-toxic products eliminate petrol sniffing behaviours in remote Indigenous communities?, Masters Thesis, RMIT University. Available from Mt Theo Program, Northern Territory. More information here.



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