Nitrogen Protoxide: What Is the Way to Fight the Third Favourite Drug Among Young People in France?

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In Orléans, as in Dijon, Cannes, Lyon or Roubaix, the municipality has decided to ban the consumption of nitrous oxide in public space and to restrict the sale of this gas to professionals. Since January, the services of this medium-sized city south of Paris have collected nearly 10,000 cartridges and bonbons, abandoned on the road. This is almost twice as much as last year. Consumers, often young, fill balloons with this gas, inhale it and thro…