It's a balmy and typically boisterous July evening in the party resort of Ayia Napa, in Cyprus. The streets are packed with giddy, sun-scorched holidaymakers, and British teenager Rebecca and her friends are out to have fun and get high. Their drug of choice is not marijuana or ecstasy, or even the cheap yet potent "fishbowls" of alcohol popular with the Europeans who flock to the Mediterranean resort in their thousands for their first hedonistic summer holiday away from their parents. Rather, their high comes in innocent-looking, brightly coloured balloons. Filled with nitrous oxide - also known as laughing gas - they are sold in the street. The gas is inhaled immediately and induces a...
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