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August, 1978

Cheap SnortAmong the latest drug fads to hit American youths appears to be the sniffing of the nitrous oxide used as a propellent in some aerosol cans of whipping cream. Writing in The American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Stanley Block, a Southern California neuro-psychiatrist, reports that kids have discovered they can inhale the "laughing gas," ordinarily used in dental anesthesia, by taking care not to shake up the can before opening the valve. In this manner, they can get several br...

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