Below is this project’s online added content – a timeline which tracks New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) as they enter the market and are then made illegal drugs.
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Wise to Highs • Timeline
New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) are a source of debate. Katie Boyden investigates the dangers and how one local council is fighting back.
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I LOVE the work that you are doing.
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I lost my son at age 25 in September last year. Keep up your good work of informing everyone of the dangers if legal highs. If you need any help, please let us know. My husband and myself are looking for ways to actively promote the dangers of legal highs to try and prevent other families going through such a tragedy and are making an awareness film this Thursday and Friday with WEDINOS, a Welsh substance misuse service.
Keep on getting the message out there, it’s such scary stuff! 😰
My son died from taking legal highs along with his friend in January 2015. Because they were legal he thought that they were safe. Obviously this was not the case. To anyone who is considering using legal highs think again. They are really dangerous because no one knows what they are mixed with. The hospitals can’t treat them because they have to do blood tests and analysis them and that takes ages….in most cases too long !
i have worked in substance misuse treatment for 13 years. alongside this I currently deliver training around NPS to professionals, schools, parents, young people. I work with the shops selling this stuff. banning them will not make it go away, it will go underground. if people want to get substances they will, peoples still use heroin/crack/cocaine, just because they will be illegal wont stop the problem. I think we should try a different approach, regulate them, let shops with the profit they make, pay for a worker in the shop. this way they will be tested and there will be support on site.