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This post explores the regulatory environment around retail and online purchases of alkyl nitrites, specifically when governments evaluate them as poppers. The exploration is done per country. As a framework, I’ve used work provided by Nicole Pepper in her contributions to the “Handbook of Substance Misuse and Addictions” that was made available in 2022. Let’s…

Hello, I did some reading on degradation pathways for alkyl nitrites (otherwise discussed as leather cleaner, room odorizer, solvent cleaner, etc) What is usually the reason for poppers “going bad”? Alkyl nitrites react with water in the presence of acids or bases and decompose back into its parent alcohol and nitrous acid. Any time the…

As a person who uses isobutyl nitrite myself, I’ve been collecting various data sources to form my own evaluation on the safety of poppers for human consumption. I was always taught that “it’s not the poison, its the dose” and that there’s no such thing as a “riskless” anything. I’d like to examine where these…

Hey there! In trying to determine the number of potential users of poppers (or video head cleaner/room odorizer/nail polish remover), I ended up doing a deep dive into this paper, it contains some interesting findings about popper use among adults in the U.S. based on data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health…