Laughter isn’t always the best medicine

Recreational use of nitrous oxide is an emerging public health problem

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  British medical journal

• Publication date

  2018-11-02

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1136/bmj.k4579PMID 30389695
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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