7: Solvents (Glue, Gas)

Catalogue note

Original March 1993 youth drug-information card, number 7 in an unidentified wider series, titled 'Solvents (Glue, Gas)' and published by the Mersey Drug Training and Information Centre. Front uses household glues, aerosols and related products; reverse covers reasons for use, effects, dangers and practical harm-reduction advice. Explicitly designed by Shed and carrying a free information line, it provides institutional context around the same youth culture documented by TMR's rave and club ephemera.

Advertised programme: Reverse explicitly states 'Published by the Mersey Drug Training and Information Centre March 93. Design by Shed.'

Graphic-design significance: Front uses enlarged still-life photography of familiar household solvent products against saturated turquoise, with concise white copy and numbered-series title. Reverse switches to dense Q&A typography. Object explicitly credits 'Design by Shed'.

Historical context: Published March 1993. Statistical/medical figures are preserved as contemporaneous publisher statements, not reasserted as current facts. Practical advice—avoiding aerosols/butane, plastic bags, isolated places, and exertion/fright after sniffing—places it within harm-minimisation youth drug education.

Production note: Full-colour photographic front with black text on pale reverse, printed on coated card/paper stock; exact process/stock not established.

Condition note: Good to Very Good appearance, ungraded. Horizontal crease/fold across upper front, surface handling/rubbing, small reverse marks/soiling and several small puncture/pinholes. All text legible and photographic face retains strong colour; no major tears or substantial paper loss.

Confidence / uncertainty: Publisher, date, design credit and information-line number physically verified. No authoritative exact-object bibliographic record found externally; physical evidence remains primary.

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