article_snippet.sent: Footage emerged today which appears to show the Liverpool and England winger breathing in the gas nitrous oxide before  passing out as giggling friends look on.
article_snippet.sent: footballer Raheem Sterling has been filmed apparently inhaling nitrous oxide - also known as 'hippy crack' The video shows footballer Raheem Sterling smiling and breathing in gas from a balloon before apparently passing out .
article_snippet.sent: While the gas can be legitimately used for pain relief in dental procedures, in engines to make them perform better, and in aerosol cans to prevent food going off, there have been concerns at its use as a so-called legal high.
article_snippet.sent: A Home Office campaign last year on the risks of legal highs showed that laughing gas was the second most popular drug among young adults in 2013/14 after cannabis, being more widely used than powdered cocaine and ecstasy.
article_snippet.sent: In September last year three revellers became ill at a nightclub in Bolton after suffering a suspected bad reaction to laughing gas.
article_snippet.sent: Police were called to Royal Bolton Hospital amid reports the patients were suffering from the effects of drug ingestion.
article_snippet.sent: It was thought Police may have inhaled nitrous oxide, but Police were said at the time to be recovering well.
highlights_snippet.sent: Young star is seen in video inhaling gas before laughing and passing out .
  