Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whippets (also known as “whippits” or “whip-its”) are a colloquial name for nitrous oxide, a colorless gas with a sweet aftertaste ...

A Florida woman died after developing a crippling, $400-per-day addiction to nitrous oxide that once left her temporarily paralyzed. Meg Caldwell, 29, of Clermont in the Orlando area, was found dead ...

Young people posting videos and photos of themselves inhaling the drug known as whippets have been going viral on social media, and although nitrous oxide—the substance the drugs are made from—is ...

There's a street drug that could be sitting in your home right now that's harming teenagers and young adults. It's an inhalant known as "whippets," and it can be easily found in whipped cream ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — One puff from a whippet can give someone a 30-second high, but the damage done to the human body and a community can last much longer, according to ...

Whippets, also known as laughing gas or nitrous oxide, are becoming the new drug trend among young adults. A young woman who says she was using more than ten tanks daily spoke with NBC News' Valerie ...