Items tagged with legal highs
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| Young drug users turn to 'bubble' for a cheap high [06.11.2011] | A huge gap is opening up in the country's illicit drugs market, as cash-strapped users switch to generic stimulants while wealthier buyers in search ... |
| Expert Seminar on Herbal Stimulants and Legal Highs [30.10.2011] | A grey area has emerged between what is legal and what is not as states struggle with how to respond to the many new synthetic compounds emerging ont ... |
| 'Legal highs' [21.10.2011] | This paper aims to set out some of the policy and public health issues raised by the appearance of a wide range of emergent psychoactive substances o ... |
| Scientist's research produces a dangerous high [28.09.2011] | John W. Huffman, a professor of organic chemistry, unwittingly contributed to the spread of "designer marijuana" so potent that the Drug Enforcement ... |
| 'Legal highs' prevalence makes ban policy 'ridiculous' [03.09.2011] | New "legal highs" are being discovered at the rate of one a week, outstripping attempts to control their availability and exposing what some experts ... |
| A mystery partly solved: How the ‘club drug’ ketamine lifts depression so quickly [14.06.2011] | A new study sheds light on why the anesthetic and “club drug” ketamine can relieve depression rapidly — in hours, instead of weeks or months. The fin ... |
| Taking Drugs Seriously [17.05.2011] | Since first coming to public prominence at the end of 2009, legal highs have posed a major challenge to existing legal and legislative structures des ... |
| Legal high battle shows need for drugs policy rethink [16.05.2011] | The Demos/UKDPC report Taking Drugs Seriously published today sets out clearly how legal highs have exposed the ancient Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (MDA ... |
| Drug laws and bans on legal highs 'do more harm than good' [14.05.2011] | The UK's "outdated" drug laws could be doing more harm than good and are failing to recognise that banning some "legal highs" may have negative conse ... |
| Options for regulating new psychoactive drugs [01.05.2011] | This paper is intended to provide the basis for a discussion of policy options in dealing with new psychoactive substances that show signs of popular ... |
| Mephedrone: still available and twice the price [05.11.2010] | Findings suggest that classification of mephedrone has had a limited effect on controlling its availability and use. Before the introduction of the l ... |
| Mephedrone found not guilty, but the next legal high may be a killer [06.08.2010] | The mephedrone scare started at the end of 2009 when newspapers and the BBC reported that Gabrielle Price, a 14-year-old girl from Brighton, had died ... |
| Mephedrone: the class D solution [17.03.2010] | The deaths of two young men in Scunthorpe last Monday that have been linked to the new "legal high" mephedrone (colloquially known as plant food, meo ... |
| Legal Responses to New Psychoactive Substances in Europe [19.02.2009] | This paper starts from the premise that, when a new psychoactive substance appears on the licit/illicit market in a country in Europe, legislators ne ... |
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