We have all heard that people with alcohol in their system have been shown to modulate and reinforce the effects of a number of drugs. Does this include nitrous oxide or laughing gas, which is an inhalation anesthetic used as an anesthetic in dentistry and in surgery. According to NCBI, National Center for Biotechnology Information, if you are a moderate drinker your chances are higher that you will have nitrous oxide during your dental treatment than a light drinker. So, that doesn't sound like anything extraordinary. Sure, if you are a more anxious person, you are more likely to drink and also have laughing gas during dental treatments.
What I do find extraordinary, is people have treated alcohol withdrawal and other substance abuse states with nitrous oxide. This was found more effective than benzodiazepine or tranquilizers, such as valium. There was no comment if stress reliever drugs like phenobarbital, butabarbital, mephobarbital and secobarbital had any effect.
If you are cleaning alcohol out of your system, it seems nitrous still has an affect on you. The National Public Health Institute, Department of Mental Health and Alcohol Research in Finland found that nitrous (N2O) treatment did not decrease craving or liver enzymes during the 6-month follow-up of alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS). At the concentration used, N2O treatment produced signs of arousal instead of strong sedation.
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