Flavored nitrous oxide is the newest drug to hit America's youth — and folks are developing crippling addictions and startling side effects to it. As New York Magazine reports, the "Galaxy Gas" brand has become synonymous with the latest generation of nitrous oxide that's readily available at smoke shops and online. With longer highs, candy-esque flavors, and little legal restriction, the chemical formerly known as "whippets" or merely "nitrous" involves huffing the gas into one's lungs to achieve a 30-second head rush. Though whippets have long been popular among hippie-ish subcultures, the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 breathed new life […]