Health workers to make appeal over legal drug dangers

DRUGS experts and frontline workers are set to present the Government with a detailed submission outlining concerns about shops which are selling legal forms of drugs.

Dr Des Corrigan, chair of the National Advisory Committee on Drugs has expressed concern about the lack of basic safety data on many head shop products. He will give an overview of the products available in head shops, their ingredients and their effects at a conference today.

“Because the drugs they appear to contain have never been tested for safety in humans, we have to rely, at present, on user reports.