Laughing gas is inactivating vitamin B12 in young people, leaving them paralyzed, experts have said. Vitamin B12 maintains the lining of nerves — if it doesn't work, people get nerve damage. Those ...

Young people are using nitrous oxide to get high at alarming rates, with colorful new ways to purchase the product, according to health experts, despite recent laws in Michigan aimed at preventing ...

Recreational use of nitrous oxide — often referred to as whippets or laughing gas — left a 23-year-old with frostbite in his mouth and throat, according to a report of the man’s case published ...

Michigan leaders are working to ban all sales of whippets in hopes of curbing the recreational use of nitrous oxide. Whippets are the small canisters of nitrous oxide found inside whipped cream ...

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Kanye West has left many questioning his health as he has reportedly relapsed back to inhaling nitrous oxide. The rapper's addiction to the anesthetic made headlines last year when an ex-employee ...