Citation

Sachdeva S, Gandhi R, Verma P, Kaur A, Kapoor R. J. Clin. Diagn. Res. 2015; 9(8): VD01-VD03.

Affiliation

Resident, Department of Pediatrics, St John Providence Children's Hospital Detroit , Michigan United States .

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, JCDR Prepublishing)

DOI

10.7860/JCDR/2015/13730.6271

PMID

26436026

Abstract

Substance abuse has been defined as the use of chemical substances for non medical purposes in order to achieve alterations in psychological functioning. The substances commonly abused in India include nicotine, alcohol, cannabis and opioids. However, the use of solvents and propellants is also on the rise as these are inexpensive, legally available household, industrial, office and automobile products; which are more commonly available to children and adolescents. We hereby describe a 16-year-old boy with combined volatile and alcohol abuse; who presented with increasing ataxia, visual and hearing disturbances.

Language: en