Rugby boy

Rugby boys (Filipino: batang ragbi) are a collective term for gangs of street children found in the Philippines.

[2] In response to widespread abuse of toluene-based substances, stricter rules have been imposed on the manufacture and sale of Rugby and similar glues by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, such as the mandatory addition of mustard oil as a sniffing deterrent.

[3] In terms of addiction, inhalants are ordinary household products such as cleaners, cooking sprays, fabric protectors, paint thinner, and adhesives and solvents.

Because of the low cost of Rugby and other inhalants, poor people (especially inexperienced and destitute youths) use them to relieve hunger pangs and common poverty health problems.

It can also cause loss of memory, confusion or disorientation, distorted perception of time and distance, hallucinations, nausea, emesis and Psychoorganic syndrome.

Inhalant abuse leads to muscle cramps and weakness, numbness of limbs, abdominal pains, damage to the central nervous system, kidneys and liver.