Inhalant abusers in trouble

Inhalant abusers in trouble

SINGAPORE (AFP): Hardware and bicycle shops in Singapore will be given a list of names of known inhalant abusers in a bid to restrict supply to them and nip the growing problem of glue sniffing at its source, a report said yesterday.

The list, believed to carry more than 1,000 names, would be provided by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) to make it near impossible for abusers to get their "fix" by sniffing glue, thinners or aerosol sprays.

"By restricting supply to them, we hope to nip the problem at its source," Tan Seck Kang, the bureau's director, told the local Straits Times daily.

Hardware shops in this island state of about three million people are already required by the CNB to keep a register of people who buy known inhalants.