Asthma Inhalers - Can You Get High?

[Neeranam]

Is it possible to get high from these things?

 

As a recovered drug addict, my body is sensitive to many drugs. Yesterday I took a puff and felt strange after it, a bit like an amphetamine rush. 

[poppysdad]

I’m no medical expert but I take different inhalers for COPD for the past 5+ years and if I take one that I haven’t used for a while I do sometimes detect and experience for a very short period a feeling of a fast improvement in my breathing. I put it down to my body not used to that medication and after a couple of days I don’t experience it again. 

 

[scubascuba3]

No, i had a blue ventalin inhaler for a few years up to 22, never slightest bit high, it just instantaneously freed the lungs so could breath without wheezing. If you're sensitive etc who knows

[Sheryl]

You do not mention what type of inhaler.

 

Inhakers contwing salbutamol have a mild stimulant effect. 

 

Steroid inhaler is unlikely to have this effect. 

[Neeranam]

11 hours ago, Sheryl said:

You do not mention what type of inhaler.

 

Inhakers contwing salbutamol have a mild stimulant effect. 

 

Steroid inhaler is unlikely to have this effect. 

 

[scubascuba3]

fyi you do get dependent on those things, I'm glad i weaned myself off the ventolin a long time ago

[Neeranam]

On 8/25/2022 at 12:37 PM, scubascuba3 said:

fyi you do get dependent on those things, I'm glad i weaned myself off the ventolin a long time ago

Thanks, I thought so, despite my doctor saying definitely not. 

[scubascuba3]

2 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Thanks, I thought so, despite my doctor saying definitely not. 

yeah they aren't being totally honest, may not be classed as addictive but you will definitely form a dependency, lungs start needing it to clear