User of legal high drugs attempted rooftop suicide

A young man who took a drug labelled ‘not for human consumption’ had to be talked down from the top of a building in Yeovil by police.

This is just the latest in a number of incidents that the police in Yeovil have had to deal with since the beginning of the year. The police blame legal high drugs, which are available in local shops, for at least six cases where people have suffered extreme effects after ingesting such substances. Police were forced to intervene in one such case where a young man was seen rubbing hair gel into his face rather than his hair.

The police have released information regarding these incidents in a bid to alert people to the dangers of using legal high drugs.

Yeovil’s Sergeant Pete Paskin explained: “These drugs are not safe for people to take. A lot of them are plant food and they must not be sold for human consumption. We need to get the message out to anyone who thinks they are safe to take – they are not. Yes, these substances are technically legal, but they are dangerous. We have had two young adults in Yeovil in the past two months who have had to be taken to A & E after taking them.”

Sergeant Paskin also commented that as with LSD, which has been found to cause flashbacks years after people began using the drug, there is no information regarding the long-lasting effects of legal high use.