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My parents think I inhale househole cleaning products to get high. I don't!
Hi, my parents recently found many Febreze cans throughout the house. They now, all of a sudden, are 100% sure I am an inhalant addict. I smoke cigarettes in the house and I go through cans of Febreze pretty quick because I use a lot to cover up the smell of the smoke though. I know I shouldn't be smoking anyway but I rather my parents know about me smoking cigarettes in the house than to think I am using inhalants.
I had a drug problem for awhile last year. I have been clean of all drugs for nearly four months and am being tested on a regular basis. I have gone through rehabilitation and attend therapy sessions regularly. I, honestly, have never even heard that you could get high off of things like Febreze, but I was aware of people who huffed paint or glue. I never got into anything like that simply because of the health effects, and because people I had talked to who did do it said it wasn't even that great but consumed their lives.
Anyway, I am trying to figure out what I should do in this situation. If there is a test or anything to prove to my parents that I am not using inhalants I would be more than happy to take it. I also need to know how to tell my parents about my cigarette smoking. I know this needs to come out to them (my therapist already knows I have picked up the habit) but I am now afraid they will think I have slipped into heavier drugs and/or making excuses up for the Febreze.
Please, I need all the help I can get because they are stuck on this and want to send me to a rehabilitation for inhalant abuse. I do not abuse inhalants and I really don't want to go to rehab for something I don't/didn't do. I do not know what I can do. HELP!
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I've actually run into this one, it was a school administration issue. I fell asleep in class one day, and my friends thought it would be funny to give me a hitler mustache with white out.
So, when I woke up to a teacher shaking me, I was sitting there asleep in class with white out on my upper lip directly under my nose.
It looked like I got messy shoving a bottle of white out up both nostrils.
I got dragged into the office, and it was worse because at that point I honestly didn't KNOW how I got white out on me. They figured I huffed so much I blacked out or something.
I showed a little derision. I was 16, I'd been to any number of parties, and my innocence was long since forgotten. I knew all about drugs, and I explained to him in detail why I wouldn't do inhalants.
Guy - You're using drugs in my school!
Me - Inhalants aren't a drug
Guy - how can you say that?
Me - Because inhalants are just chemicals. Drugs are substances that have affects on the brain, inhalants don't have affects, they just outright kill the cells. How stupid do you think I am that I would be sitting in class snorting white out, knocking myself out and screwing my head up with a substance who's only effect is to make your brain not work?
I managed to convince them that no, I would not snort white out in class.
Go talk to your parents. Show them the cigarettes, then pull out a can of febreeze, read whatever it says on the side of the bottle about getting rid of odors, and ask them a simple question.
"If you were smoking and wanted to hide that fact from your parents, how would you do it?"
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