As usual for the type of screeching and breathless hit piece that these types of things inevitably become, it seems that two very distinct things are being conflated here in a probably deliberate attempt to make them appear equivalent.
The headline image shows a bunch of nitrous oxide cartridges or “whippets” discarded on the ground, and there is one lonely mention of nitrous down at the very bottom of the article. The article puts a lot of scary words around “inhalants” but stops short of defining which ones they’re actually talking about, and I’m guessing (having not watched any of the TikTok videos nor do I intend to) that nitrous is not the actual, or at least only, concern here. Either that or they’re trying hard to imply that nitrous fries your brain as much as huffing, say, tetrafluoroethane.
Doing nitrous (or whippets, or hippie crack, or laughing gas, or whatever you want to call it this decade) is neither new, nor is it particularly harmful provided you can manage not to do it in such a moronic way that you asphyxiate yourself or pathologically huff the stuff at the edge of high precipices or while driving or something.
Inhaling propellant gasses from aerosol cans, meanwhile, i.e. the usual sort of “huffing,” is monumentally stupid and also a fast track to permanent brain damage.
Just make sure you’re packin’ the right kind of chrome, choom.
The most dangerous thing about NO2 is freezing of finger tips, followed by slight headache.
But again, it’s never save to inhale stuff not produced to be inhaled (but for ingestion at least, which can’t be said for paint or gasoline)
Chroming?
We need legal access to shrooms.
Getting strong “MTV made my child addicted to the devils lettuce” vibes from these comments
From the article:
The scientists analyzed 109 chroming-related videos on the social media platform that collectively had over 25 million views.
Billion user platform that’s popular with young people has young people interested in easy to get drugs. Won’t someone think of the children
I mean… that’s a problem, isn’t it? That it’s getting them into inhalants?
I assume you are not popular at parties. 😁
Edit: oh god, you’re the dude with 50,000 comments in like a year. Nevermind.
I don’t tend to go to parties where children are using inhalants, and you’re right, I probably wouldn’t be popular there.
Thanks ticktock for making nitrous expensive again. My nitro coffee maker is too expensive to use again.
Nitrous is the same price near me as it’s been for 15 years, but now I can get big tanks instead of small canisters!
I don’t understand tiktok. Last trend i heard about was people cheating banks to get free money (aka fraud) and now they’re doing inhalants as a trend? How many brain cells does the average tik toker have?
Yes i know my age is showing. Get off my lawn!
before tiktok we had to rely on our friends sketchy older brother to tell us new ways to get high.
Same as it ever was.
N2O is pretty awesome.
Right up until you suddenly die of a brain aneurysm because your dumbass thought it was a safe legal high. There is nothing awesome about that.
Here in Stockholm it is common to see spent 1.3kg N2O bottles just lying on the sidewalk in the morning, especially after a weekend.
And I doubt that is much dentistry going on on a weekend night on the streets of Stockholm.
The companies selling the N20 bottles even advertise on Youtube.
I just had a look at the cost of a 1.3kg bottle of N2O, it is less than the equivalent of 50USD.
And now I see that they have flavoured N2O…
