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What is nitrous oxide (or nangs) and how dangerous is it?

  • Written by Stephen Bright, Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University
what is nitrous oxide (or nangs) and how dangerous is it?Nitrous oxide has been used as an anaesthetic for over 100 years.Shutterstock

Media reports last week linked the use of “nangs” to the death of a teenager at schoolies week on the Gold Coast. Hamish Bidgood died when he fell from a balcony. He and his friends had reportedly been using “nangs” that day.

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