UK - The shocking truth about legal highs

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9:00am Monday 5th March 2012

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HAZARDOUS chemicals being sold as legal highs are just a few mouse clicks away, despite being linked to a wave of health problems in Swindon.

Websites are renaming and altering the composition of products to dodge new laws – but are still selling substances which are illegal, the Adver has found.

The town is one of the worst spots in the country for problems related to legal highs, according to information collected by national health agencies. Great Western Hospital has registered a surge in admissions since August, while anecdotal evidence suggests the craze has claimed several lives.
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http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/9569013.The_shocking_truth_about_legal_highs/
 
Websites are renaming and altering the composition of products to dodge new laws – but are still selling substances which are illegal, the Adver has found.
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Wow, really? you're just catching on to this... Brilliant journalism. These websites must be genius, coming up with such a new profound strategy...
 
UK media always been over hysterical with legal-highs. but stats shows that during mephedrone period number of cocaine related deaths went down. as well as number of solders tested positive for cocaine.

later they realised that banning mephedrone was not so good idea at all

Perverse effects of the precautionary principle: how banning mephedrone has unexpected implications for pharmaceutical discovery
Ther Adv Psychopharmacol
(2011) 1(2) 35—36
DOI: 10.1177/
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David Nutt
 
if they will be banning new drugs with the same pace as it is now, then there will be no incentives for creating it.
 
Legal Highs?
There are a lot of substances out there... and just to throw something out there Diphenhhydramine...
my mother, dad, grandma and aunt had no idea it could be abused and addicting.
I don't see this substance being banned. Of course the substance is for allergy or sleep conditions and has an active use but so do some other illegal substances.
I wonder if the long term effects can be hazourdous to ones health ?

and sorry if my post isn't on the topic 100 % as you can see im newer.
 
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