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"Whippets" is a slang term for nitrous oxide, a gas commonly used in medical settings as a sedative or pain reliever. Here's what parents should know.
Nitrous oxide is said to enhance the effects of psychedelics. [6] Since nitrous oxide can cause dizziness, dissociation, and temporary loss of motor control, it is unsafe to inhale while standing up. Safer use can involve inhalation while seated to decrease risks of injury by falling.
While whippets have been around for years, Galaxy Gas is a nitrous oxide product that influencers, celebrities and teenagers have been spotted using across social media in recent months.
Nitrous oxide: legally used by dentists as an anxiolytic and anaesthetic, it is also used recreationally by users who obtain it from whipped cream canisters (whippets or whip-its) (see inhalant), as it causes perceptual effects, a "high" and at higher doses, hallucinations. Opiates and opioids: Available by prescription for pain relief.
The bills, which the Michigan House passed Tuesday, would ban the sale of devices used to recreationally inhale nitrous oxide from whippet canisters.
While the effects of the gas generally make the user appear stuporous, dreamy and sedated, some people also "get the giggles" in a state of euphoria, and frequently erupt in laughter. [ 23 ] One of the earliest commercial producers in the U.S. was George Poe , cousin of the poet Edgar Allan Poe , who also was the first to liquefy the gas.
The new law banning whippet crackers will take effect in mid-June — the bills were slated to take effect 90 days after they were signed into law. Existing state laws already ban the sale of ...
The effects of inhalants range from an alcohol-like intoxication and intense euphoria to vivid hallucinations, depending on the substance and the dose. Some inhalant users are injured due to the harmful effects of the solvents or gases or due to other chemicals used in the products that they are inhaling.