Australia - Esra Haynes, 13, “chroming” social teen trend, 31 Mar 2023

[imstilla.grandma]

The family of a 13-year-old Australian girl who died from “chroming” has urged action to prevent similar deaths from occurring.

“We want to help other children not fall into the silly trap of doing this silly thing. It’s unquestionable that this will be our crusade,” Paul Haynes, the girl’s father, told Australian outlet the Herald Sun. “No matter how much you lead a horse to water, anyone can drag them away. It’s not something she would have done on her own.

“The ripple effect is that this is absolutely devastating. We’ve got no child to bring home.”

Esra Haynes died after she inhaled fumes from a deodorant can, causing her to go into cardiac arrest March 31. She remained on life support eight days, at which point doctors determined her brain was “damaged beyond repair” and her family decided to turn off the machines.

Chroming, which appears to be an evolution of a decades-old trend of huffing or sniffing, involves the participant sniffing anything from aerosol cans to metallic paints, gas and solvents. Two boys, both 16, died from participating in the trend in 2019, according to The Straits Times.

Chroming has a broader definition, but the name arose from the act of sniffing chrome-based paint as a means to get high, according to the National Retail Association.

13-year old girl dies from ‘chroming,’ latest alarming social media trend - WFIN Local News

The family of a 13-year-old Australian girl who died from "chroming" has urged action to prevent similar deaths from occurring. "We want to help other children not fall into the silly trap of doing this silly thing. It's unquestionable that this will be our crusade," Paul Haynes, the girl's...

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[airportwoman]

Huffing has been going on for as long as there have been volatile chemicals. Gasoline has long been a popular choice for this - and it only takes a few uses to cause permanent brain damage. That's not the same as smelling it while you're pumping it; these people put it in a bag and concentrate the fumes.

 

[iamshadow21]

The family of a 13-year-old Australian girl who died from “chroming” has urged action to prevent similar deaths from occurring.

“We want to help other children not fall into the silly trap of doing this silly thing. It’s unquestionable that this will be our crusade,” Paul Haynes, the girl’s father, told Australian outlet the Herald Sun. “No matter how much you lead a horse to water, anyone can drag them away. It’s not something she would have done on her own.

“The ripple effect is that this is absolutely devastating. We’ve got no child to bring home.”

Esra Haynes died after she inhaled fumes from a deodorant can, causing her to go into cardiac arrest March 31. She remained on life support eight days, at which point doctors determined her brain was “damaged beyond repair” and her family decided to turn off the machines.

Chroming, which appears to be an evolution of a decades-old trend of huffing or sniffing, involves the participant sniffing anything from aerosol cans to metallic paints, gas and solvents. Two boys, both 16, died from participating in the trend in 2019, according to The Straits Times.

Chroming has a broader definition, but the name arose from the act of sniffing chrome-based paint as a means to get high, according to the National Retail Association.

13-year old girl dies from ‘chroming,’ latest alarming social media trend - WFIN Local News

The family of a 13-year-old Australian girl who died from "chroming" has urged action to prevent similar deaths from occurring. "We want to help other children not fall into the silly trap of doing this silly thing. It's unquestionable that this will be our crusade," Paul Haynes, the girl's...

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I'm confused about why this is being framed as something new... I remember news articles and PSAs about chroming when I was a teenager in Australia, and that is a good twenty to twenty-five years ago. And it was called chroming then.

Any death from overdose is a tragedy, but this isn't some new 'trend'... Like I said, it was harming and killing kids in the '90s. I remember visiting my BFF who lived in a suburb that was all housing commission, and there'd be spray cans and plastic bags discarded in alleys and parks, and by my midteens, I knew WHY. I never partook, but it was everywhere, and known about, and known about by ME, who at the time was being raised in an incredibly conservative religious household with no intoxicants whatsoever (LDS). If I knew about it, then the media around it was public, like, evening news public.

MOO

 

[airportwoman]

Huffing seems to be most popular in high-poverty areas, because chemicals are so easy to access, and, if you will, reusable.

 

[DS2021]

The majority of these "new trends" are just older trends coming back again

 

[airportwoman]

The majority of these "new trends" are just older trends coming back again

Each generation of kids thinks they made that up.

Example: Did you know that if you put an X on the end of Tampa, Florida, it becomes Tampax, Florida? Yeah, I made that up when I was about 11 years old. So did a lot of other 11-year-olds.