A father tells ABC Radio Adelaide his 16-year-old son died after inhaling gas from a barbecue gas bottle to get a high.
"We jumped in the car and I took them back there, and there was an ambulance there and three paramedics working on Paddy when I got there."
"They continued to do that for 45 minutes after I got there but they couldn't get his heart to start again," he said.Adrian said after talking to a few people about huffing, some teenagers had admitted to trying it, and knowing others who had as well.
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