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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rebecca Thomas

Doctors warn ‘dangerous’ laughing gas is becoming an ‘epidemic’ amid rise in hospitalisations

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Doctors in the UK have warned over an “epidemic” of patients admitted to hospital from laughing gas abuse amid a 257 per cent rise in serious poisonings.

Specialist neurologists and toxicologists speaking with The Independent warned they are seeing young people admitted through emergency departments every two weeks now due to the impacts of nitrous oxide canisters, also called “whippets.”

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