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In Merauke (South Papua), everyday practices, peer dynamics, and social labeling remain under-described.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec002\">\n                    <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To explore lived experiences of street-connected children and adolescents who use inhalants in Merauke, focusing on initiation, accessibility, peer processes, harms, return to glue use, and perceived stigma.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec003\">\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We conducted an inductive descriptive qualitative study with children and adolescents aged 12\u201318 years who reported glue use in the prior three months. Participants were recruited via gatekeeper-facilitated snowball sampling until information power indicated sufficiency. Data comprised semi-structured in-depth interviews (audio-recorded) and\u00a0field notes; brief member checking closed each session and after the analysis. Transcripts were analyzed using inductive content analysis in NVivo 15.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec004\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Twenty-two participants (19 male, 3 female) shared narratives; among the nine who recalled their age at initiation, first glue use occurred between 5 and 12 years. Participants reported inhaling commercially available adhesive products. Five categories emerged: (1) Early Exposure, Easy Access, and Peer Influence (Early Initiation, Easy Availability, and coercive invitations); (2) Everyday Glue Use and Its consequences (earmarking daily income for glue, polysubstance patterns, concealment, somatic\/perceptual disturbances); (3) Social dynamics and peer support (in group\u00a0solidarity, ambivalent community\/enforcement responses, painful labeling); (4) Returning to the cycle (peer-triggered return, difficulty quitting, and strong attachment to glue); and (5) Hopes and multilevel strategies (age-gated sales and basic-needs support).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec005\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Glue-sniffing in Merauke is sustained by permissive retail environments and peer-mediated cues set against structural deprivation. Effective prevention requires integrated policy, peer, service, and social-protection responses tailored to local contexts.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0359626","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,5]],"date-time":"2026-10-05T17:22:23Z","timestamp":1791220943000},"page":"e0359626","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.corrections_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["\u201cThey call me a glue kid, but I don\u2019t like it\u201d: Experiences of glue use among street-connected adolescents in Merauke Regency, Indonesia"],"prefix":"10.1371","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Faisal Adi","family":"Irawan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Universitas Airlangga","place":["Surabaya, Indonesia"],"department":["Magister of Nursing Student, Faculty of 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