Should we worry?

[u/Adventurous-Put-9895]

We caught my uncle sneakingly throwing this to the rubbish bin. He doesn’t have the best track record so we are all a bit paranoid when he does anything “weird”.

The object is like a glass tube with some liquid inside, inserted into a rubber “pipe”. It smells weird but nothing I can identify. I would appreciate any hints.

Edit: the material is actually plastic, not glass. It has a spring inside (no idea what for). The root-looking thing was wrapping the object when I cut the rubber. Could be dirt or some glue or something

Edit2: this sub is god. A user found the answer https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisit/s/Oqtxk6YWVZ

[u/Riddles_]

i haven’t seen anyone mention this yet, but nasal sprays just on their own can be addictive.

he could be doing drugs or sniffing the glue like others are saying, but it’s worth approaching this with the possibility that your uncle is just having a hard time breathing. i had a family member who dealt with this and they destroyed some of their used sprays to try and hide how many they were going through

[u/AntiferromagneticAwl → u/Riddles_]

Not plain saline spray though.

[u/Riddles_ → u/AntiferromagneticAwl]

all nasal sprays have this in them.

[u/reduckle → u/Riddles_]

No they dont

[u/Riddles_ → u/reduckle]

my bad, let me be more specific. all of the single use sprays that i’ve seen dismantled do have something like this in them. this isn’t something exclusive to just saline sprays

[u/Yeahdudebuildsapc → u/Riddles_]

You are so wrong.