Getting glue-sniffers unstuck

  • 1998-07-23
  • Daniel Silva
It isn't heroin or cocaine that presents the biggest threat to Latvian youth. It's glue, as Daniel Silva reports.Completely high from sniffing glue, 10 year old Armands fell from the roof of a seven-storey building and went through two plastic marquis before hitting the ground. This is how he got the long scar across his stomach.The experience was not enough to stop him from sniffing glue. Soon he was back on the streets filling plastic bags with glue and raising it to his face to inhale the fumes.Armands is not alone. Last year 309 under-age children were detained by the police for sniff...
 
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