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Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved - The Glue-Sniffing Epidemic of the 1960s (Paperback)
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Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved - The Glue-Sniffing Epidemic of the 1960s (Paperback)
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Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved tells the story of the
American glue-sniffing epidemic of the 1960s, from the first
reports of use to the unsuccessful crusade for federal legislation
in the early 1970s. The human obsession with inhalation for
intoxication has deep roots, from the oracle at Delphi to Judaic
biblical ritual. The discovery of nitrous oxide, ether, and
chloroform in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
and the later development of paint thinners, varnishes, lighter
fluid, polishes, and dry-cleaning supplies provided a variety of
publicly available products with organic solvents that could be
inhaled for some range of hallucinogenic or intoxicating effect.
Model airplane glue was one of those products, but did not appear
in warnings until the first reports of problematic behavior
appeared in 1959, when children in several western cities were
arrested for delinquency after huffing glue. Newspaper coverage
both provided the initial shot across the bow for research into the
subject and convinced children to give it a try. This "epidemic"
quickly spread throughout the nation and the world. Though the
hobby industry began putting an irritant in its model glue products
in 1969 to make them less desirable to sniff, that wasn't what
stopped the epidemic. Just as quickly as it erupted, the epidemic
stopped when the media coverage and public hysteria stopped, making
it one of the most unique epidemics in American history. The
nation's focus drifted from adolescent glue sniffing to the
countercultural student movement, with its attendant devotion to
drug use, opposition to the Vietnam War, southern race policies,
and anti-bureaucracy in general. This movement came to embody a
tumultuous era fraught with violence, civil disobedience, and
massive sea changes in American life and law-glue sniffing faded by
comparison.
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