Significant increase in laughing-gas poisonings in Germany

NAMPA / DPA

2025-08-31

Berlin (dpa) - Poisonings from the legal drug nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, are increasingly occupying the nationwide emergency services in Germany. The number of inquiries regarding nitrous oxide poisonings has almost doubled from 2023 to 2024, David Steindl, head of the poison emergency service at the Charité Hospital in Berlin, told dpa. The number for the region of Berlin and Brandenburg rose from 35 to 66 inquiries over tha......

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