June 2022

“Poppers Maculopathy” is an Electrochemical Overload High concentrations of nitric oxide are suspected to represent the underlying cause of retinal damage linked to poppers intake.

Fabrizio Magonio, MD, 2022

Nitrous oxide–induced reproductive risks: Should recreational nitrous oxide users worry? Recreational users of N2O, however, voluntarily and repeatedly expose themselves to (very) high doses of N2O. As such, they exceed the health exposure limits some hundred times, but they are fully unaware of the related reproductive risks.

Jan van Amsterdam, Wim van den Brink

Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2022

A two-decade review of butane toxicity as a substance of abuse We aimed to review butane-attributed toxicities due to its harmful use or misuse reported in a two-decade period.

Maryam Vahabzadeh, Bruno Mégarbane 

Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology, 2022

Huffing-Induced Multi-Organ Failure: A Case of Acute and Long-Term Manifestations Due to Inhalant Abuse Here, we present one of the first cases of a patient who rapidly deteriorated into multi-organ failure from inhalant abuse just hours after presentation.

G. D. Truong, Z. A. Creech, M. G. Del Core; Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, United States.
TOXICOLOGY, PHARMACOLOGY, AND ENDOCRINOLOGY, 2022

April 2022

 

Skeletal Fluorosis: A Case of Inhalant Abuse Leading to a Diagnosis of Colon Cancer Skeletal fluorosis is a long-term bone disease that develops when prolonged fluoride toxicity leads to osteosclerosis and bone deformities that result in crippling pain and debility.

Haseeb Mohideen, MD, Dushyant Singh Dahiya, MD, Dustin Parsons, MSc,
Hafsa Hussain, BSc, Rizwan Syed Ahmed, DO

Journal of Investigative Medicine, 2022

March 2022

Analysis of clinical characteristics and prognostic factors in 110 patients with nitrous oxide abuse The recreational use of N2O has largely expanded among youth in recent decades, which has become a growing public health concern in China.

Miao Yu, Yue Qiao, Weishuai Li, Xiuying Fang, Han Gao, Dongming Zheng, Ying Ma

Brain and Behaviour, Wiley Open Access, 2022

February 2022

Nitrous oxide-induced myeloneuropathy: an emerging public health issue Increasing use of nitrous oxide as a recreational drug has been reported among young adults in western countries over the past decade. We present two cases of young males presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) of a large urban university hospital in Dublin with progressive neurological dysfunction related to nitrous oxide use.

John P. McCormick, Sophie Sharpe, Karen Crowley, Alexander Dudley, Ruadhan O’Laoi, Michael Barry, Lisa Owens, Colin P. Doherty, Janice Redmond & Sarah-Jane Yeung

Irish Journal of Medical Science, 2022