Should drug abuse be treated as a criminal issue at all? This post from The Independent highlights how far away are we from an informed debate on drug abuse. In prisons, on our poorest housing schemes, even in the archetypal leafy suburbs of Britain, the war on drugs has long been lost. According to the Office for National Statistics, there were 3,744 record deaths from drug ... Continue Reading
legal highs
STUDY: Legal highs: staying on top of the flood of novel psychoactive substances
ABSTRACT: There has been growing clinical, public, and media awareness and concern about the availability and potential harmfulness of so-called ‘legal highs’, which are more appropriately called new or novel psychoactive substances (NPS). A cat-and-mouse process has emerged wherein unknown chemists and laboratories are producing new, and as yet nonproscribed, compounds for ... Continue Reading