UK - Parents warned of 'legal highs' danger

[edgarshade]

The Shuttle

7:10am Wednesday 15th August 2012

With reader comments

PARENTS are being warned about the dangers of so-called “legal highs”.

They have been alerted to the issue by the drug and alcohol action team at Worcestershire County Council . Legal high is the term used for novel psychoactive substances, which have been chemically altered to get around existing drug laws. There has been an increase in their use by young people in Worcestershire in line with national trends. Worcestershire's Drug and Alcohol Action Team (DAAT) wants to highlight the fact that just because a substance is legal does not mean it is safe.

"The message to parents is - if you don't know what the substance is, your son or daughter could be at serious risk by using it. For more information about drugs, alcohol and young people, please see our range of fact sheets online worcestershire-daat.org.uk [follow links to Young People pages within the professionals area of the website] or use our QR code."

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[AlphaMethylPhenyl]

Well governments are really running into a problem with legal highs. They're hurting citizens not only by being what I view as nanny-states in not allowing people to take drugs. They're also giving the impression that any drug not illegal is safe, thereby prompting people to take untested and likely harmful substances in place of relatively safe ones.