Legal Highs Flooding UK Pose Immense Overdose Risk, Warns Drugs Tsar

Legal highs flooding UK pose immense overdose risk, warns drugs tsar

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Prof Les Iversen warned of the arrival of a new generation of compounds that imitate the effects of 1960s-style LSD psychedelics and cautioned that they could bring with them serious risk of overdose. Iversen, the chairman of the home secretary's …
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Operation Street Smart comes to Lake County to provide latest tactics, trends …

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Attendees learned more about physiological effects of drug abuse/addiction, drug-related street slang and terminology, and ways abusers and addicts access their drugs and camouflage their behaviors. Bain and Powell want anyone who interacts with …
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Allegedly Smoked Crack Cocaine: What Are the …

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Signs of addiction can include extreme irritability, paranoia, severe depression, weight loss, decline in personal hygiene, psychosis, and anhedonia, or inability to experience pleasure. Since the addictive drug's effects last such a short amount of …
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