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'Zombie' drug xylazine found in cannabis THC vapes in UK: Cannabis vapes are being sold containing the dangerous animal tranquiliser xylazine, experts say.
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What is Xylazine? The 'zombie drug' sweeping the UK: Tranq dope, medically known as xylazine, could sweep the UK in THC vapes. Here are the use and effects of ...
metro.co.uk/2024/04/11/xylazine-drug-effects-use-tranq-dope-uk-20622134/
Burnley's Pastor Mick warns of dangers of nitazenes drug: Pastor Mick Fleming is now warning people about the dangers of synthetic opioids ...
lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/24228650.burnleys-church-street-warns-dangers-nitazenes/
Government bans 15 new drugs with seven-year jail sentences: They have all been categorised as Class A drugs from today
walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/government-bans-15-new-drugs-28851471
Nitazenes: street drugs stronger than heroin, fentanyl: A class of drugs called nitazenes — developed in the 1950s but never approved for medical use — is ...
dw.com/en/nitazenes-street-drugs-stronger-than-heroin-fentanyl/a-68608727
Relax rules on research into illegal drugs, say advisers: The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs says drugs like psychedelics could be key to new treatments ...
bbc.com/news/uk-politics-67801919
Ministers urged to open up access to magic mushroom compound psilocybin for mental health researchers
standard.co.uk/news/health/ministers-urged-open-up-access-psilocybin-researchers-b1129214.html
✍️ Timmy Davis: There is a mental health crisis with 125 people taking their own lives each week. The Government needs to reschedule psilocybin in order to ... Show more www.standard.co.uk/comment/psilocybin-antidepressant-drug-saves-lives-patients-need-access-psychedelics-policy-b1128710.html
Inhaling laughing gas from today could see you jailed : Government's new law means nitrous oxide is now a Class C drug and users risk fines ...
plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/inhaling-laughing-gas-today-could-8886821
Length of time drug users and dealers can go to prison for: Liverpool has one of the busiest crown courts in Europe and every week deals with dozens of drug ...
liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/what-uks-drug-penalties-how-28110549
Laughing gas ban: When will it happen and what punishments will people face?: Nitrous oxide - or 'laughing gas' - will become an illegal class C substance.
itv.com/news/2023-10-18/laughing-gas-ban-when-will-it-happen-and-what-punishments-will-people-face
Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas to be illegal by end of year: Nitrous oxide will become a class C drug in the UK and carry up to two years in jail for possession.
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Laughing gas ban: MPs vote 404-36 to make nitrous oxide a Class C drug: Tory MP Dr Dan Poulter warned of 'the potential for unintended consequences' ...
inews.co.uk/news/politics/laughing-gas-mps-vote-404-36-to-ban-nitrous-oxide-2612659
Pressure on UK ministers after SNP's drug law reforms backed by MPs: MPs have concluded that UK drug laws must be reformed and a safe consumption room pilot ...
heraldscotland.com/news/23756410.pressure-uk-ministers-snps-drug-law-reforms-backed-mps/
Safe places for drug consumption should be piloted in UK, MPs recommend: The report also recommended the establishment of a national drug checking service in ...
news.sky.com/story/safe-places-for-drug-consumption-should-be-piloted-in-uk-mps-recommend-12951170
London on drug alert after seizure of ‘super strength’ opioid: Fears that new super-strength lab-made heroin could sweep the capital increased on Wednesday after ...
standard.co.uk/news/crime/london-drug-alert-seizure-synthetic-opioids-nitazenes-b1111262.html
Scotland drug deaths crisis: ‘Hundreds of deaths’ missing from official drug statistics, investigation reveals
scotsman.com/health/scotland-drug-deaths-crisis-hundreds-of-deaths-missing-from-official-drug-statistics-investigation-reveals-4267900
David Nutt: “It’s the biggest breakthrough in mental health for 50 years”: David Nutt did not set out to find a revolutionary new treatment for depression ...
newstatesman.com/encounter/2023/07/david-nutt-interview-depression-treatment-mental-health
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Police seizures of cocaine have skyrocketed by almost 1,600 per cent in just a decade but arrests have tumbled #frontpage www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/cocaine-capital-record-london-seizures-police-arrests-b1098456.html
The zombie MPs in Westminster can’t stop Scotland leading the way on drugs: For all of Westminster's bluster and blithering, something has changed
inews.co.uk/opinion/zombie-mps-westminster-cant-stop-scotland-leading-way-drugs-2478726
How deadly are various activities? ‘Micromorts’ can show us the risks of 50 different dangers
sltrib.com/news/2023/07/02/how-deadly-are-various-activities/
Monkey dust drug clampdown could be coming in UK: Tougher penalties may be introduced for the street drug that has led to people jumping off buildings.
bbc.com/news/health-65556046
What is cannibal-drug monkey dust and why could it be reclassified?: A probe has been launched into a drug that reportedly makes people want to eat glass ...
kentonline.co.uk/news/trending/what-is-cannibal-drug-monkey-dust-and-why-could-it-be-reclas-286792/
Date-rape drugs are being advertised by dealers on TikTok: GBL, which has been used by serial rapists and murderers, is now being promoted to young people on one ...
inews.co.uk/news/date-rape-drugs-are-being-marketed-on-tiktok-as-dealers-post-videos-advertising-their-products-2346922
Laughing gas has exposed the Government’s biggest fear: young people: What’s really being expressed here is a desire to criminalise the activities teenagers ...
inews.co.uk/opinion/laughing-gas-has-exposed-the-governments-biggest-fear-young-people-2241064
There's only one reason Rishi Sunak is cracking down on nitrous oxide: And if it pays off for the Tories it will be them who have the last laugh.
metro.co.uk/2023/03/30/theres-only-one-reason-rishi-sunak-is-cracking-down-on-nitrous-oxide-18530094/
Former cocaine user Michael Gove says taking drugs is a 'mistake': Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove said his past has taught him that drug use is a ‘mistake’ ...
metro.co.uk/2023/03/26/former-cocaine-user-michael-gove-says-taking-drugs-is-a-mistake-18504424/
Top secret drug report supported decriminalisation: The Home Office has won a battle to suppress a report from its own expert adviser that recommended ...
thetimes.co.uk/article/top-secret-drug-report-supported-decriminalisation-qqb3x0lbj
Paid articlePaid Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas should not be banned, review says: Nitrous oxide, known as laughing gas, is the second most-used drug in the UK among 16 to ...
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Dublin’s laughing gas epidemic — how is it harming our young people why can’t it just be banned?
independent.ie/regionals/dublin/dublins-laughing-gas-epidemic-how-is-it-harming-our-young-people-why-cant-it-just-be-banned-42432240.html
Review into harms of laughing gas stops short of recommending a ban: Anna Firth, MP for Southend West, has been campaigning for months for a crackdown on ...
echo-news.co.uk/news/23367138.review-harms-laughing-gas-stops-short-recommending-ban/
Young people taking '150 nitrous oxide balloons a day': Some children are taking 150 canisters of nitrous oxide - a drug 'more dangerous than cocaine' ...
metro.co.uk/2023/03/14/young-people-taking-150-nitrous-oxide-balloons-a-day-18438436/
Review stops short of calling for laughing gas ban after govt warned over 'concerning rise' in use
news.sky.com/story/review-stops-short-of-calling-for-laughing-gas-ban-after-govt-warned-over-concerning-rise-in-use-12827267
North Laine Community Association slams Brighton Council over graffiti: A community group has slammed the council and police for failing to prosecute “vandals” ...
theargus.co.uk/news/23418228.north-laine-community-association-slams-brighton-council-graffiti/
Paid articlePaid Laughing gas could be banned from sale in bid to crack down on antisocial behaviour
itv.com/news/2023-01-26/laughing-gas-could-be-banned-from-sale-in-antisocial-behaviour-crackdown
Moral panic over laughing gas has blown up in the Government's face: The war on drugs is the original form of post-truth politics
inews.co.uk/opinion/moral-panic-over-laughing-gas-has-blown-up-in-the-governments-face-2216639
MP Mark Garnier - 'Laughing gas is no laughing matter': MP Mark Garnier has welcomed recommendations that have been made by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of ...
kidderminstershuttle.co.uk/news/23369546.mp-mark-garnier---laughing-gas-no-laughing-matter/
Laughing gas to be banned under anti-social behaviour crackdown: Ministers want to revise drug misuse laws to allow people found with nitrous oxide gas ...
news.sky.com/story/laughing-gas-to-be-banned-under-anti-social-behaviour-crackdown-12795753
Hippy crack - report stops short of recommending nitrous oxide ban: A review commissioned by the Government to examine the harms of laughing gas - nitrous oxide ...
yorkpress.co.uk/news/23367248.hippy-crack---report-stops-short-recommending-nitrous-oxide-ban/
Laughing gas will still be confiscated in Sandwell despite Government stopping short of ban
expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/sandwell/2023/03/07/laughing-gas-will-still-be-confiscated-in-sandwell-despite-government-stopping-short-of-ban/
Essex vape pen and laughing gas cannister littering: LAUGHING gas cannisters and vape pens are being discarded in their “hundreds” blighting south Essex’s green ...
echo-news.co.uk/news/23356272.essex-vape-pen-laughing-gas-cannister-littering/
Laughing gas ban ‘planned to tackle anti-social behaviour’: Ministers are reportedly proposing to ban the sale and possession of nitrous oxide gas.
kentonline.co.uk/news/national/laughing-gas-ban-planned-to-tackle-anti-social-behaviour-79351/
Nitrous oxide: Ban on use and sale of laughing gas considered: Laws may be tightened on the sale and use of the drug, which can have damaging side effects to ...
bbc.com/news/uk-64408790
Suspected drug deaths in Scotland 'increased in October and November': The Public Health Scotland report showed 109 people died from suspected drug use ...
news.stv.tv/scotland/suspected-drug-deaths-increase-in-october-and-november-public-health-scotlands-radar-report-shows
Scotland drug deaths: Figures rise for October and November as SNP criticised over 'national emergency'
scotsman.com/health/scotland-drug-deaths-figures-rise-for-october-and-november-as-snp-criticised-over-national-emergency-3998909
You've seen them littering parks and open spaces, but laughing gas is set to be banned in a crackdown on the party drug
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Could overdose prevention centres tackle the UK’s drug death crisis?: In late 2020 a converted van appeared in central Glasgow. Inside were clean needles ...
newstatesman.com/spotlight/healthcare/2022/12/overdose-prevention-centres-uk-drug-death-crisis
Could overdose prevention centres tackle the UK’s drug death crisis?: In late 2020 a converted van appeared in central Glasgow. Inside were clean needles ...
newstatesman.com/spotlight/healthcare/2022/12/overdose-prevention-centres-tackle-uk-drug-death-crisis
‘No stone unturned': Scottish drugs minister calls for for safe consumption rooms
thenational.scot/news/23104106.no-stone-unturned-scottish-drugs-minister-calls-safe-consumption-rooms/
Cannabis harmful: UK police say marijuana on par with 'crack and cocaine': Conservative police and crime commissioners call for marijuana to be on par with crack ...
nzherald.co.nz/world/cannabis-harmful-uk-police-say-marijuana-on-par-with-crack-and-cocaine/C3H6V6OOIC7IQK4QDSCWHFMPS4/
Home Secretary urged to ban consumer sales of laughing gas: The Home Office is reviewing the legality of laughing gas - but some believe a ban could create a ...
itv.com/news/2022-10-18/ban-consumer-sales-of-laughing-gas-suella-braverman-told
Cannabis smokers face losing passports as possession offences plummet: Users stopped by police would also have to pay to attend drug awareness courses and face ...
walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/cannabis-smokers-face-losing-passports-25027706
People smoking weed in the street targeted in drug user crackdown: Next month police officers will target those who think they can smoke cannabis in public or ...
gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/people-smoking-weed-street-targeted-7753205
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