Chroming isn't new it's inhalant abuse under a different name. But it's trending on social media, and experts want parents to know the signs and how to talk to their kids about it.
creates euphoria and can raise your body temperature, your blood pressure and your heart rate, and then if it s mixed with other drugs, it can kill you. dex-related emergency room visits increased more than 70% from 2004 to 2008. so the drug enforcement ministration is asking for help. they want advice from the fda whether to make products like nyquil, robitussin available by prescription only. some say this is going overboard. when you ve got inhalant abuse four times higher, marijuana abuse many, many times higher, compared to other drugs of abuse, this is not the most serious threat facing a lot of families. reporter: cough medicine makers say their products help millions of people and should stay over the counter, and parents are the key to curbing abuse. many parents did not talk to their children but we know that parents who do talk to their children have a 50% decrease in using drugs.