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Items tagged with legal highs

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‘Club drug’ ketamine lifts depression in hours [22-05-13] The largest study to date confirms that ketamine — a “club drug” that is also legally used as an anesthetic — could be a quick and effective way to re...
Legal highs flooding UK pose immense overdose risk, warns drugs tsar [16-05-13] The chief drugs adviser to the government has given his strongest warning yet on legal highs in Britain, saying there are now more than 200 synthetic ...
Drugs 2.0: The web revolution that's changing how the world gets high by Mike Power – review [12-05-13] Every day we hear about what the internet has done to books, music and newspapers. But there's one massive retail industry that has also been rad...
From Chinese factory to UK households – realities of the trade in legal highs [09-05-13] Chemistry firms in many Chinese provinces are churning out modified versions of illegal drugs and selling them online. Everything from amphetamine-lik...
Clubbers mix former legal high mephedrone with ecstasy, despite ban [28-04-13] Clubbers are regularly taking the former legal high mephedrone alongside ecstasy and cocaine, a trend that experts warn could have grave health implic...
The hidden dangers of legal highs [27-04-13] It's never been easier, or cheaper, to buy drugs online – but no one knows what's in them, or how dangerous they are. For most of the last d...
Drop charges over ecstasy, police urged [21-03-13] Ecstasy users should not be charged by police, former Labor health minister Neal Blewett said during a provocative keynote address to the peak police ...
Generic legislation of new psychoactive drugs [01-03-13] New psychoactive drugs (NPDs, new psychoactive substances) enter the market all the time. However, it takes several months to ban these NPDs and immed...
Kiwis on drugs: a blueprint for the future? [28-02-13] This week New Zealand publishes its Psychoactive Substances Bill, legislation which some believe will transform the international debate on drugs poli...
Towards a Safer Drug Policy [14-01-13] For forty years the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 has formed the corner stone of drug policy in Britain. The emergence of new psychoactive substances (‘leg...
Make legal highs available for sale, government urged [14-01-13] The least harmful new "legal highs" should be made readily available for sale under strictly regulated conditions rather than being immediat...
Decriminalise drugs – it would reduce the level of harm in Britain [14-01-13] The all-party parliamentary group on drug policy reform undertook an inquiry into the implications of the arrival of "legal highs" – a new s...
‘It opens your heart’ [28-12-12] Exactly a century after ecstasy was first patented, Health Canada has approved the drug’s import for the first Canadian study using the illegal substa...
Britain has not simply fallen out of love with illegal drugs [18-12-12] "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" summed up the response from the Home Office, and later David Cameron, to the publication of the ...
David Cameron urged to take 'now or never' step on drugs reform [10-12-12] David Cameron should urgently set up a royal commission to consider all the alternatives to Britain's failing drug laws, including decriminalis...
Government cracks down on legal highs [10-10-12] Legal highs will undergo a costly and lengthy testing process involving human clinical trials under a strict new regime that could see manufacturers j...
Illicit drugs 'going out of fashion' [27-09-12] Illicit drug use in England and Wales is firmly on a downward curve, with the latest annual figures confirming the long-term trend that they might sim...
Can MDMA help to cure depression? [15-09-12] There is a real concern among many scientists that the government's classification of ecstasy as Class A overstates the danger it poses to soci...
Legal use of cannabis, ecstasy for over-15s backed by state medical body [10-09-12] A report by a group of prominent Australians that recommends Australia rethink its criminalisation of illicit drugs has been backed by the Victorian b...
'Revolutionary' legal high law means state regulated drug market [28-07-12] Kronic-style drugs are expected back on the shelves under the new legal high law being crafted by Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne. Experts say ...
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