A 14-year-old girl died after trying out 'huffing,' a dangerous trend that involves inhaling household cleaners to get high.
Aria Doherty pictured above was found dead at her home in Northridge, Los Angeles on Monday after inhaling computer keyboard cleaner
Her body was discovered by her older sister - she was lying in bed with a can of compressed air attached to her mouth.
The trend of huffing also known as bagging or dusting is growing among pre-teens.
A recent survey showed one in five children have tried to get high by huffing chemicals before the eighth grade.
But Aria's devastated parents believe it was their daughter's first time at inhaling the chemical and insist she had meant to kill herself.
'I'm positive my daughter didn't realize it had the potential to kill her,' said Carolyn Doherty told NCC.
'This was not that she had done it so many times that the chemicals had finally caused her brain damage or she’d gotten too much into her system.'This is about her having a heart attack from just the very moment that she did the inhaling,' Mrs Doherty told CBS L.A..
The couple had talked to their daughter about drug use before and said they had never found any evidence that she had huffed at all.
Aria, a straight A student, had been at home alone for a few hours before the discovery was made.
She attended Nobel Middle School and teachers there are now planning an inhalant education awareness programme for her fellow students.
Last week a 12-year-old girl searching for a high died after she collapsed in her grandmother's bathroom when she huffed freon from the air conditioner outside.
Kristal Salcido, a seventh grader in Victorville, California, was declared brain dead after the incident. Her family took her off life support four days later.
Kristal's horrifying death is a nightmare for her parents and a warning for families everywhere about the dangerous trend of teenagers tapping air conditioning units to inhale the freon gas.
As well as death, the terrifying trend can cause long-term effects including damage to the kidneys, liver and brain.
An autopsy is pending, but it is possible that the computer cleaner caused cardiac arrest or the teen asphyxiated.
Culled from MAIL ONLINE
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