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, ...

Marketed with names like “Galaxy Gas” and “Miami Magic,” and often sold in steel cartridges known as “whippets,” these products are cheap and readily available at gas stations, convenience stores, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Producers and sellers of recreational nitrous oxide are giving this dangerous product a false sheen of safety and regulation when the harsh reality is ...

Community members combed the sidewalks and parks in southwest Detroit for three hours Saturday morning looking for small, silver canisters known as chargers or whippets, emptied of the nitrous oxide ...

A DRIVER caught “zig-zagging” on a busy road while holding a hippy crack balloon and a mobile phone has avoided jail. Maria ...