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Green_T


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Poor quality cocaine turning users onto 'legal highs' [UK]
#13355721 - 10/19/10 03:35 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Poor quality cocaine turning users onto 'legal highs' 7th October, 2010 - Metro.co.uk
As the purity of seized cocaine has declined in recent years, ‘it would come as little surprise if users turned their backs on a low-quality product’, said experts.
Previously, cocaine use had risen steadily every year since 2005, but the number of 18 to 24-year-olds seeking treatment fell substantially this year, down 14 per cent to 7,304 from 8,522 in 2008-09.
‘Despite this apparent step away from the most harmful street drugs, there is some evidence of a corresponding move towards new synthetic compounds such as mephedrone,’ the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse said.
Peter Kelsey, team leader for Lifeline Redcar and Cleveland, which helps drug users, said: ‘People hear the word legal and they think it’s safe. It’s anything but.
‘With legal highs, there have been lots of reports of different side effects like people committing suicide or becoming paranoid because of mephedrone binges. It’s new so we are still trying to establish the best way to deal with it.’
Mephedrone – also known as meow meow, bubbles and M-cat – was banned and made a class B drug in April after it was linked to the deaths of two teenagers.
It later transpired they had not taken the drug.
The numbers seeking treatment for crack and heroin addiction were also down 40 per cent on figures for 2005.
‘The figures confirm the NTA’s claim that the ‘Trainspotting generation’ that got hooked in the 1980s is growing older, fewer young people are risking getting addicted to heroin, and treatment is beginning to show an impact on drug use,’ said NTA chief executive Paul Hayes.
The only drug which saw a rise in use was cannabis, which accounted for 29 per cent of all new treatment cases, up from 18 per cent five years ago.
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Re: Poor quality cocaine turning users onto 'legal highs' [UK] [Re: Green_T]
#13355770 - 10/19/10 04:57 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Are so many people seeking treatment for weed because it's court-ordered? Does anyone ever actually go to rehab and say, 'I'm addicted to weed, I need help!'
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German Kahuna
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Re: Poor quality cocaine turning users onto 'legal highs' [UK] [Re: monkeyheaven]
#13355902 - 10/19/10 06:37 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Mephedrone – also known as meow meow, bubbles and M-cat – was banned and made a class B drug in April after it was linked to the deaths of two teenagers.
It later transpired they had not taken the drug.
Yeah, but we know that all it takes is a good excuse. At least the article mentions the fact that their deaths had nothing to do with mephedrone. I wonder how many teenagers drank themselves to death or were killed in an alcohol related accident or violence in the UK in April alone. And I wonder if anyone ever considered banning alcohol as a result of it. Goddamn hypocrits make me sick.
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Re: Poor quality cocaine turning users onto 'legal highs' [UK] [Re: Green_T]
#13355970 - 10/19/10 07:16 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Meow is a fraction of the price, stronger, better and purer.
Nobody wants the 5% pure benzocaine shit they sell as coke in Britain anymore.
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gamer4life
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Re: Poor quality cocaine turning users onto 'legal highs' [UK] [Re: monkeyheaven]
#13356404 - 10/19/10 09:41 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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monkeyheaven said: Are so many people seeking treatment for weed because it's court-ordered? Does anyone ever actually go to rehab and say, 'I'm addicted to weed, I need help!'
I have been in more than 4 rehabs in the last 15 years and yes more than half of the Teenagers were in their because they say they are addicted to weed. But most of these kids usually get busted by their parents and to be able to keep their vehicles and other things parents make these kids go to rehab thinking they are addicted to marijuana. This is what I've seen in the rehabs I've been to. I have never seen anyone over 21 in rehab for marijuana except for court orders. But I have been clean now for 5 years and going to college to be a drug counselor.
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Re: Poor quality cocaine turning users onto 'legal highs' [UK] [Re: gamer4life]
#13356478 - 10/19/10 10:00 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Two deaths not even related to Meph make it illegal >>>>> People sell on the streets >>>>> Dealers begin to cut Meph with unsafe chemicals causing many more deaths >>>>> dealers battle over turf more death >>>>> The U.K spends millions prosecuting and trying to stop Meph use.
I love how one death (usually related to a super high dose or something unrelated) can make a drug illegal. Anyone heard of Brett's Law? In Delaware, a boy smoked Salvia. Months later he killed himself. His parents, unable to admit they were shitty and neglectful parents, blamed the drug. So even though there are virtually no other Salvia suicide cases, his parents are campaigning across the country to make Salvia illegal.
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