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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2000-12-21T11:06:03'
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title: High on Gas and Out
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[_High on Gas and Out of Hope_](http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22735-2000Dec18.html) is a disturbing but important news story on gas-sniffing native kids in northeast Canada. When you read this, don't think that this problem is confined to the arctic or the third world -- while it's gasoline in Labrador, in northwest New Mexico it's hairspray. Cans of hairspray in stores around Gallup, New Mexio are locked behind the counters with cigarettes to combat this same problem.