Government study to quiz legal high users on ill-effects

THE Government’s advisory group on drugs is to investigate the experience of hospital emergency departments & treating patients suffering ill-effects from using head shop substances, as well as question users of the legal highs.

The move is part of the National Advisory Committee on Drugs (NACD) plans to examine types of specifically psychoactive substances being sold in head shops.

The NACD investigation comes as the Government drives ahead with a planned second wave of head shop bans later this year, which will include substances not under the Misuse of Drugs Act but which have psychoactive effects.