A sedative long used by physicians and dentists, nitrous oxide - popularly known as "laughing gas," is being increasingly consumed as a party drug. Among its common effects are a feeling of relaxation ...

(WYTV) – An employee in the Daybreak newsroom recently had oral surgery and mentioned that she breathed laughing gas to get through it. Why do we call it that? The name for it is nitrous oxide, and it ...

Nitrous oxide has been used for nearly 200 years for anesthesia and pain relief. Dentists often administer "laughing gas" to people undergoing tooth extractions, root canals and other procedures, ...

When you think about preventing suicide, you don’t think about a Victorian party drug used in whipped cream canisters. But nitrous oxide, that sweetly numbing, slightly sweet inhalant long beloved by ...

I have never met anyone who I believed to be intelligent who was also humorless. When comedian Nate Bargatze took the stage last week at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis he spent a few moments ...

A way to detect laughing gas on people’s breath for at least an hour after use could be developed into a breathalyser-like test. As recreational use of laughing gas, or nitrous oxide, has increased in ...

MONDAY, Dec. 8, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Laughing gas might live up to its name for people struggling with depression, a major new study says. Treatment with nitrous oxide can provide rapid relief for ...

It's no laughing matter: Kids and teens across America are increasingly inhaling nitrous oxide, better known as "laughing gas," to get high. Too often, this ends in tragedy. U.S. deaths linked to ...

Giving birth is no laughing matter, but the gas seems to help. — -- A Minneapolis mom who wanted a natural birth was more than 13 hours into labor when she felt she wasn't going to make it ...

The researchers in a recent study have discovered that nitrous oxide, also called laughing gas, could offer a potential breakthrough to cure severe or treatment-resistant depression quickly. The ...