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Getting high to get high
In Israel an incredible 14% of kids aged 12 to 18 are said to be getting high on refrigerants. Which is bad enough, but there’s an added problem - they climb up on roofs to get at the gas by disconnecting the tubes which carry it from the tank.
One 16-year-old boy recently fell to his death from the roof of a Netanya school. He’d been inhaling gas from air conditioning units with three other boys, there was an argument and one of the youngsters pushed him off the roof. In the last few years there have been other similar deaths.
All solvent abuse is extremely dangerous, but inhaling air conditioning gas has an added element of risk when you’re on roofs or balconies where units are located. The refrigerant makes users argumentative and violent. But of course it also makes getting down from the roof with a head full of gas far more dangerous than going up. Particularly when you feel as if you can fly.
Let’s make sure this trend doesn’t catch on here by keeping air-conditioning gas as secure as possible.
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