@article{ref1,
title="Nitrous oxide inhalation as a fad. Dangers in uncontrolled sniffing for psychedelic effect",
journal="California medicine",
year="1967",
author="Dillon, J. B.",
volume="106",
number="6",
pages="444-446",
abstract="&quot;LAUGHING GAS is the newest thing for kids seeking kicks,&quot; the Stanford Daily reports. &quot;They sniff it.&quot;So begins a news story in the Los Angeles Times of 26 January 1967. The story continues:&quot;It's the latest way to travel, or so say a growing group of devotees on the campus,&quot; the university student paper said. &quot;It can produce much the same effects as psychedelic drugs, they claim, and it's cheaper to obtain.&quot;One student said he buys the gas, nitrous oxide, from a medical supply house. ;They think I am anesthetizing rats,' he explained.&quot;Campus medical authorities said the gas, sniffed ;in sufficient amounts... could produce all the states of anesthesia, including the final stage-death.'&quot;<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0008-1264",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}