The authors describe inhalant abuse among children in an American Indian
elementary boarding school. They discuss the initial interventions made to
control this problem, such as providing a lower adult-child ratio and
improving staff morale and child management skills and developing a
volunteer program to improve the quality of the children's experience after
school hours. They suggest that such preventive efforts be made early to
interrupt the destructive cycle of dependence on external agents.
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