Chroming killed Rosie's cousin. Now she's speaking out about her addiction in the hope of deterring others
At 12 years of age, Rosie* started inhaling volatile substances with her friends in public locations around Brisbane.
The practice is known as chroming, and by the age of 15 she was addicted to it — that is, until she lost her first family member because of it.
"We were sitting at the park and we all decided to drink that night … but instead, we went to the shops and we stole a few cans each and we went back to the park," Rosie recalled on ABC Radio Brisbane's Afternoons program.
"I sat down with everybody and probably 20 minutes into it, my little cousin started choking and I said, 'Just stop chroming because you never know', and he said, 'Nah, nah it's all good'.
"Probably 10 minutes after that he kind of just dropped on the floor, out of nowhere.
"His eyes were rolling into the back of his head and I called the ambulance. They were on their way and he just like sat up and spewed up everywhere white … [he vomited] all the chrome up.
"He couldn't breathe and like, his throat … his face was just getting like red and purple and changing colours."
Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-24/chroming-addicted-teenagers-speak-out-to-deter-other-kids/11537756
The practice is known as chroming, and by the age of 15 she was addicted to it — that is, until she lost her first family member because of it.
"We were sitting at the park and we all decided to drink that night … but instead, we went to the shops and we stole a few cans each and we went back to the park," Rosie recalled on ABC Radio Brisbane's Afternoons program.
"I sat down with everybody and probably 20 minutes into it, my little cousin started choking and I said, 'Just stop chroming because you never know', and he said, 'Nah, nah it's all good'.
"Probably 10 minutes after that he kind of just dropped on the floor, out of nowhere.
"His eyes were rolling into the back of his head and I called the ambulance. They were on their way and he just like sat up and spewed up everywhere white … [he vomited] all the chrome up.
"He couldn't breathe and like, his throat … his face was just getting like red and purple and changing colours."
Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-24/chroming-addicted-teenagers-speak-out-to-deter-other-kids/11537756
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