Glue sniffing is discovered as comprehensive preponderating as an inhalant use. This trend, in the course of time will lead children to even more violent and unsocial activities (Singh, Tripathi, Karki, & Bhandari, 2009).
Such type of drug dependency is resulting in an increase in street children carrying out petty thefts. Addiction to glue‐sniffing is making street children more dependent on substances. Peer pressure and easy availability of glue “dendrite” are two of the prominent reasons for addiction to sniffing. Glue‐sniffing among street children in Nepal can be taken as an initiation to the use of other more teratogenic drugs. According to a prominent child rights NGO, Child Workers in Nepal (CWIN), there are approximately 5,000 street children over the country among them 800–900 in Kathmandu only. The main cities of Nepal where the street children found are Kathmandu, Biratnagar, Pokhara, Dharan, Narayanghat and Butwal. Hence, just like abuse of any other substances sniffing is a serious problem among street children. Thus, inhalant abuse intervention programmes seem important from the community health perspective also (Mondal, 2013). There is study suggested that children who starts abusing inhalants or other solvents in early stages of life they are more likely later to use other illicit drugs in their future. In their marginalized state, they constitute a truly “hidden” population who were excluded from the national census, educational or health data, largely because of lacking of their proper address.
Populations of Street children are marginalized mainly in urban area and look quite difficult to trace the exact number and the magnitude of their hardship. Though, there are many children found working or living on the street of urban area throughout the world. Glue‐sniffing is usually taken by the young children as a forerunner to alcohol abuse, and probably, it became substitute because of its low cost, readily availability and provides faster onset of action (Barker & Adams, 1962).Ĭhildren's right has become a serious agenda of the developing world, according to United Nations charter on the rights of the child in 1990 street children in the large cities of the world received much attention to provide their quality life and better future (Bourdillon, 1994).Children are the source of hope, stimulus for the society and could be the building blocks for the development of world so they should not remain neglected by parents or government rather than bringing them into positive environment. However, the term “glue‐sniffing” has come to be applied, in a general way, to all kinds of solvent abuse by inhalation. Meanwhile, it is also reported about the abuse of other kinds of volatile substances, such as paint thinners, nail varnish remover, gasoline and lighter fluids subsequently appeared. During the early 1960s, the effect of inhaling substances and their impacts on the society and users health become major issue to the researcher and government as well.
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