Charity worker Alison Hodgson warned that legal highs were “more dangerous than crack cocaine”
Merseyside police is backing a national crackdown on legal highs. Supported by the Home Office, the National Crime Agency and the UK Border Force, forces from across the UK will be targeting suppliers and making personal visits to people who have bought the products. Officers will also be carrying out a range of activities designed to raise awareness of the damage legal highs can do to health and looking at ways they can stem the supply of these substances over the internet.
Last month, the ECHO revealed how Merseyside children were playing a deadly game of Russian Roulette by taking legal highs in home and in school.
Revealed: Merseyside children playing deadly game of “Russian Roulette” with legal highs. Cheaply bought over the internet or from other young people, charity worker Alison Hodgson, from Evolve, warned that legal highs were “more dangerous than crack cocaine”.
Today she welcomed the new clampdown. She said: “Anything that helps to raise awareness of the damage legal highs do has to be welcomed. “I honestly believe a lot of people are innocent – they don’t realise how lethal they can be because they are legal. Education has to be the way to protect people because each time a legal high is banned another one floods in.”
