This week's Sunday cover story focuses on an old drug made new: nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, and how its abuse as an inhalant is affecting Kentucky families. Kentucky this year became the third ...

Police have issued a warning after noticing more nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas, canisters in Longridge. PCSO Naznin Patel has noticed “an increase in finding nitrous oxide canisters” when ...

Nitrous oxide has long been used in dentist offices. Researchers found nitrous oxide-related fatalities in the U.S. spiked 578% in 14 years. The FDA issued an advisory in March regarding teens abusing ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A Mobile mother is sharing a warning after her son was hospitalized in critical condition from what she says was long-term nitrous oxide abuse. Mobile County sheriff’s wife ...

Nitrous oxide (N₂O) is used in medicine for analgesia and anesthesia. It is also used as a propellant for whipped cream canisters. Legally available in many jurisdictions with few restrictions, ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Mothers delivering at Mercy Hospital Springfield now have a new option for managing pain during labor: nitrous oxide. Mercy recently began offering the new pain management method in ...

First Lady Casey DeSantis and Lt. Gov. Jay Collins announced on Tuesday a major statewide undercover operation targeting the illegal sale of nitrous oxide. Inhaling "laughing gas" (as nitrous oxide is ...

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. – A business owner faces charges after police say his stores in Collinsville and Fairview Heights, Illinois, were selling nitrous oxide. High Life in Fairview Heights was still ...

CHARLOTTE — It’s called nitrous oxide. You may know it as laughing gas. Dentists use it for pain relief. Others use it for a quick high. You can buy it legally. Social media promotes it, and it’s ...

NORWALK — Officers seized illegal cannabis products and more than a dozen pounds of nitrous oxide gas from a vape shop Wednesday, according to the Norwalk Police Department. As a result of the seizure ...

Once a rare phenomenon, the consumption of nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, has increased in France, raising public health concerns and prompting medical and legal measures. Medically, ...

LAUDERDALE COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — Law enforcement is spreading awareness about the dangers of nitrous oxide ahead of a statewide ban on Oct. 1. Lauderdale County Sheriff Joe Hamilton said inhalants are ...