Legal high campaigner warns about “Russian roulette”
An anti-drugs campaigner from Tayside has claimed that the practice of injecting legal high drugs has become more of a problem than heroin use. The Rev Martin Fair, who assists at the Havilah drug addiction centre in Arbroath, claims that users of the class A drug heroin are now injecting the legal drugs known as
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Leeds councillor asks for ban on legal high shops
A local councillor in Leeds has called for a ban to be placed on shops selling controversial legal highs. Councillor Mick Coulson is a member of a campaign to raise awareness about the dangers inherent in legal high drugs and wants the authorities to be given greater powers to act against shops – known as
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Grandmother wrongly imprisoned over legal highs
A grandmother jailed for taking legal high drugs into a prison is deliberating over whether to put in a compensation claim. Sharon Bolton, from Nottinghamshire, was imprisoned for 19 days, only to be released when it was found that the substance she was accused of taking into a prison illegally was not on the banned
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Zero-tolerance for legal highs at an Essex college
An Essex college has enacted a zero-tolerance for legal high drugs following one student’s severe reaction. Anthony McGarel is the chief executive and deputy principle of South Essex College. He heard screams coming from the seventh floor of the college’s campus in Southend, where a 16-year-old student had taken a legal high and was experiencing
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