Nitrous oxide canisters used to get high lie on a street in downtown San Francisco in February 2022. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) The Los Angeles City Council is considering cracking down on ...

Nitrous oxide is one of the most misunderstood power-adders on the market. It has a reputation for being unsafe or unethical, but pound per dollar, nitrous is the most inexpensive and easiest way to ...

Marketed with names like “Galaxy Gas” and “Miami Magic,” and often sold in steel cartridges known as “whippets,” these ...

The addiction hooked Kevin Quigley fast.“The things I would do to get just one more hit. This is a terribly addictive thing,”<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Carl Curtis made the most of life. He never slowed down. “He was 79 but was in better shape than me,” said Carl’s son, John Curtis. Carl and his longtime partner, Yvonne Levy, loved ...

CLYDE TOWNSHIP, Mich. – A mother is calling for legal changes after her son, a U.S. Air Force veteran living in St. Clair County, died by suicide following what she describes as a devastating ...

A 30-year-old woman’s arrest reportedly turned combative Oct. 8, as St. Cloud police tried to take her into custody. Shortly before 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, a St. Cloud police officer responded to ...

A Redding doctor is sounding the alarm about misuse of nitrous oxide as a drug in Shasta County. Here's what to know about NO ...

Like many wonderful and useful scientific things, nitrous oxide was discovered by accident in 18th-century England, and much later (during the '30s and '40s) it was used by dentists as an anesthetic.

More people are getting addicted to nitrous oxide, which can cause nerve damage, paralysis and even death. The U.S Food and Drug Administration has put out a new warning about the danger of inhaling ...

PATIENT AND SEVERAL OTHERS. LOUISIANA IS ONE STEP CLOSER NOW TO BECOMING THE SECOND STATE TO EXECUTE SOMEONE USING NITROGEN HYPOXIA GAS. SO FAR, ONLY ALABAMA HAS DONE SO, BUT THREE OTHER STATES HAVE ...

The Los Angeles City Council is considering cracking down on the sale of nitrous oxide — known as laughing gas, which is typically administered by anesthesiologists as a short-acting sedative. But ...