Actress Demi Moore’s trip to the emergency room was reportedly spurred by symptoms of a seizure triggered by inhaling the drug nitrous oxide, more commonly known as laughing gas or whippits. The drug ...

Vito Oliveri and Emily Shuford (left) previously told Insider that they were temporarily paralyzed after using nitrous oxide.Vito Oliveri Laughing gas is inactivating vitamin B12 in young people, ...

A state lawmaker wants to make it harder for people to purchase nitrous oxide – though it’s not clear if the proposal would ...

The scenes are becoming increasingly common in Anaheim: Several teens and young adults huddle outside a fast-food joint, taking turns sucking on a balloon. Dozens of young adults at an industrial ...

Every party needs balloons. These just happen to be filled with laughing gas. “We don’t do it that often. It’s funny for about 30 seconds,” said a concertgoer outside Red Rocks Amphitheatre, who was ...

Harry Sumnall receives and has received funding from public grant awarding bodies for alcohol and other drugs research. He is an unpaid member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Mind Foundation, ...

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Nitrous oxide will become a class C drug and outlawed by the end of the year, the government announced on Tuesday. Users of the substance, also known as laughing gas, face up to two years in prison or ...

A can of grape-flavored nitrous oxide sits under State Sen. Brach Myers’ desk at the Louisiana Capitol. Leading up to this spring’s legislative session, Myers set out to discover how easy it was for ...

Los Angeles-- Authorities say the use of nitrous oxide as a recreational drug has grown from a rave party phenomenon to mainstream use, propelled by the ease of social media to reach young people.