The unintended consequence of this week's media coverage of mephedrone, a legal drug openly sold on the internet which may be implicated in the death of Gabrielle Price, a 14-year-old girl who ...
“They can even kill,” shrieks the tagline for a new public information poster warning against the dangers of legal highs. You might have seen it at a bus stop or in a train station – it’s the one with ...
Campaigner calls for new US-style ban on 'legal highs' Police make three arrests in connection with deaths Sacked drugs tsar says ban would be 'premature' The government has pledged to 'take any ...
The agency arrested 51 accused while probing 24 cases registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) ...
Home Secretary Alan Johnson is to ban mephedrone and other synthetic so-called "legal highs" within weeks. It comes after the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs recommended they be classified as ...
Ahmedabad: The city crime branch on Saturday arrested a 42-year-old man and seized mephedrone (MD) drugs worth nearly Rs 10 ...
Even Chris Morris might have had trouble making it up. In 1997, the celebrated satirist tricked public figures including Rolf Harris, Noel Edmonds and David Amess MP into warning Britain's teenagers ...
The drug mephedrone, banned almost a year ago, is still easily available to buy on the internet, the BBC has found. Mephedrone became a class B drug, the same as speed or cannabis, last April. But ...
On a Thursday evening in early March a group of Oxford students are preparing for a night out. Though exams are looming, lectures are about to take a break for a few weeks, so it’s a perfect ...
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The drug mephedrone, banned almost a year ago, is still easily available to buy on the internet, the BBC has found. Mephedrone became a class B drug, the same as speed or cannabis, last April. But ...