Thinktank’s recommendations on legal highs backed by charity
Recommendations made earlier this week by a thinktank for introducing legislation on legal highs have received the backing of a charity. The Angelus Foundation was set up by the mother of a medical student, Hester Stewart, who died in 2009, aged just 21, after taking the liquid legal high GBL. A representative for the charity
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Dealers of legal highs should be charged with manslaughter
Northern Ireland’s senior coroner, John Leckey, has called for a change in the law to allow dealers who sell legal highs to be charged with manslaughter if a person dies after consuming them. This follows the death of Alice Devlin, a Dungannon teenager, after taking a legal high. Maurice Morrow, Fermanagh and South Tyrone MLA,
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Legal highs featured on Embarrassing Bodies
Last week Channel 4's Embarrassing Bodies featured academics from the School of Chemistry in Lincoln, who have developed a new type of analysis that quickly and conclusively identifies legal highs. The University of Lincoln has developed a new testing method to identify substances in legal highs. The analysis can quickly detect the active ingredients and
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Alcoholic drinks should carry label warnings to combat abuse
A group of MPs has recommended that all bottles of alcohol sold within the UK should carry a health warning. The recommendation has been put forward by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Alcohol Misuse. This group is concerned about the increasing level of alcohol abuse within the UK and wants clear health warnings to be
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