Angelus, the only UK charity dedicated to raising awareness of the risks from ‘legal highs’, has achieved its goal of a ban on their sale. The Psychoactive Substances Act has come into force, and will ‘demolish’ the high street trade in ‘legal highs’. The legal change will radically disrupt the new psychoactive substances market and [...]
Dyfed Drug and Alcohol Service (DDAS), in partnership with Hywel Dda University Health Board, Dyfed Powys Police, National Probation Service and Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire Local Authorities, have expressed serious concern about possible drug-related deaths in the Dyfed-Powys area, which may be the result of a batch of heroin and street synthetic opiates. Partners are [...]
Alkyl nitrites or ‘poppers’ as they are more commonly known, aren’t outlawed under the Psychoactive Substances Act. The organic compound has been in use as a recreational drug since the 1970s, and since the initial wishes of the government to include the substance in the upcoming back, there has significant pressure from the public, most [...]
