Western Australia to restrict the sale of nitrous oxide

While they have "legitimate medical purposes" such as being used as anaesthetic, people are known to inhale them which has a range of health risks.Nangs, also known as laughing gas or whippets, refer to nitrous oxide. They are intended to be used in cream canisters.

Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson said the state has an issue with young people misusing them and hopes this will stop them being so readily available.The WA government is also consulting with key groups on whether further restrictions on their purchase can be imposed. These include looking at limits on the number of canisters that can be bought, restricting time of purchase and putting in place a delay of 24 hour from purchase to dispatch if they're bought online.The move comes after a new drug survey revealed Western Australia as the largest user of the bulbs to get high.

The annual Australian Drug Trends 2022 report interviewed 700 young drug users and it found nearly three quarters of those surveyed in Perth had used nangs in the last six months.

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