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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 ...
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...
Inside Denmark's 'fixing rooms', where nurses watch as addicts inject in safety [05-05-13] Since the launch of the room, the quantity of drug paraphernalia collected from gutters, playgrounds, stairwells and doorways in the area has halved. ...
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...
Class A drugs policy failing, say prison governors [25-04-13] "The current war on drugs is successful in creating further victims of acquisitive crime, increasing cost to the taxpayer to accommodate a higher...
Brighton plans safe rooms for addicts to inject drugs [14-04-13] Brighton is set to be the first British city to offer official "drug consumption rooms" where addicts can use heroin, crack and cocaine unde...
Green green grass of home: police crack down on cottage industry of cannabis [11-04-13] Across the UK, 7,865 cannabis farms were discovered in 2011-12, an increase of 15% on the previous year's figures and over double the number for ...
Criminologist refutes cannabis-related crime increase claims [08-04-13] Criminologist Professor Alex Stevens has refuted media reports that reducing penalties for cannabis possession has led to increased drug use, crime an...
Legalising drugs would be the perfect Tory policy [19-02-13] A new poll out today by the campaign group Transform finds a majority now favour permitting cannabis use, while four in 10 Britons favour total decri...
Decriminalise heroin and cocaine says Belfast drugs worker [15-02-13] One of Northern Ireland's most senior drugs workers has said that class A drugs like heroin should be decriminalised, regulated and made availabl...
Drugs advisory group decides against banning qat in UK [23-01-13] A clash between the home secretary, Theresa May, and her expert drugs advisory group is looming after it decided against banning qat, a mild herbal ...
Khat: A review of its potential harms to the individual and communities in the UK [23-01-13] On the basis of the available evidence, the overwhelming majority of Council members consider that khat should not be controlled under the Misuse of D...
Khat ban rejected by UK drug advisers [23-01-13] The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) said there was "insufficient evidence" that khat caused health problems. The stimulant is...
Khat: a legal high, but should it be banned? [22-01-13] Khat, a stimulant drug, is chewed by around 90,000 people in the east African and Yemeni communities in the UK. But now the Home Office is considering...
Khat ban calls ahead of government report [16-01-13] Calls for the herbal high khat to be banned in the UK have been renewed days before a government report into its usage is due to be published. Some m...
Doctors say UK drug policy should focus more on health [15-01-13] Although illicit drug use has been declining in the UK, long-term problem drug use and drug-related deaths are not decreasing, says the British Medica...
The 1971 Misuse of Drugs act was the stupidest and most ineffective ever passed [15-01-13] Yet another parliamentary group has pronounced in favour of drugs decriminalisation. It still won’t happen. What is baffling is the intransigence of B...
Major victory for President Morales: UN accepts “coca leaf chewing” in Bolivia [14-01-13] Bolivia will again belong to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs after its bid to rejoin with a reservation that it does not accept the treat...
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...
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