Scottish police lead crackdown on legal highs
Police in Scotland have led nationwide raids to implement a crackdown on the sale of legal high drugs. More than 70 police officers were involved in the raid, which focussed on three main shops in Edinburgh. The unprecedented swoop led to the seizing of legal high drugs worth in the region of £60,000. The police
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Shopkeeper refuses to stop selling legal highs
A Leicester shopkeeper has refused a request by police and officials from Trading Standards to stop selling legal highs. Tejinder Reehal, who owns Scorpion in Narborough Road, Leicester, has refused to take the psychoactive substances off her shelves until they become illegal. This refusal comes after the police and Trading Standards officials wrote to several
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Fees under consideration for drunken A&E patients in Northern Ireland
New proposals being considered in Northern Ireland suggest fining alcohol and drug users for visiting A&E departments. The proposals have the support of health experts, who are concerned that the NHS is being used to treat people who have become ill through their own irresponsible behaviour. The health minister for Northern Ireland, Edwin Poots, stated
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Are legal highs to become more deadly than heroin?
A new study suggests that legal highs may cause more deaths than heroin within the next two years. Research carried out by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), which is due to be published later this week, calls for government to take more action to combat these new drugs, which are also known as new
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