Eighth graders are among the top users of the unregulated “party drug.”
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The last decade has seen a 578 percent rise in deaths due to nitrous oxide poisoning, a new research letter shows, revealing a sharp rise in U.S. fatalities linked to the gas—often called “laughing gas”—over the past 13 years.
The colorless, odorless gas is used recreationally as a euphoric and hallucinogenic drug.