Ambulance officers and paramedics have not reported a noticeable spike in emergency attendances to ACT incidents involving substance abuse using nitrous oxide cartridges, despite an upsurge of this issue in NSW.
Yet hundreds of the discarded nitrous oxide cartridges - colloquially known as "nangs" - have been reported in and around the streets of Civic and Belconnen indicating the problem of it used as a recreational drug is emerging, although potentially going largely unreported.
