Model Airplanes Are Decadent and Depraved: The Glue-Sniffing Epidemic of the 1960s

by Thomas Aiello

Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved tells the story of the American glue-sniffing epidemic of the 1960s, from the first reports of use to the unsuccessful crusade for federal legislation in the early 1970s. The human obsession with inhalation for intoxication has deep roots, from the oracle at Delphi to Judaic biblical ritual. The discovery of nitrous oxide, ether, and chloroform in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and the later development...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875807240
• ISBN13: 9780875807249
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher