Sentences with phrase «new psychoactive substances»

Their paper, «Examine Correlates of New Psychoactive Substance Use Among a Self - Selected Sample of Nightclub Attendees in the United States,» was recently published in The American Journal on Addictions.

Prison officers are often the victim of assaults, and they are also suffering from seeing increased levels of violence, suicides and self - harm linked to new psychoactive substances from formerly well behaved prisoners.

As from November 2011, the Home Secretary has the power to invoke a temporary class drug order for new psychoactive substances that, following advice from the ACMD, are considered to be a cause for concern.

It actually supports a blanket ban on new psychoactive substances.

The new strategy has emerged after Home Office noticed new threats identifies as new psychoactive substances (NPS), image and performance - enhancing drugs, chemsex drugs and misuse of prescribed medicines.

She complains that emergency and police services are not knowledgeable about new psychoactive substances.

«Evidence is now emerging of so - called grey marketplaces — online sites selling new psychoactive substances which operate on both the surface and the deep web.

«The greatest risk to young people from new psychoactive substances derives from the absence of reliable information about the contents and strength of each substance and its effects both short and long term,» the report said.

The government's new Psychoactive Substances Act starts from the absurd premise that anything which «is capable of producing a psychoactive effect» will henceforth be banned.

In any case, member states have different systems for dealing with harmful drugs in general, and for addressing new psychoactive substances.

«There is a lack of clarity in the Bill with regard to the relative harm associated with different types of new psychoactive substances (NPS) and the appropriate sentence commensurate with the offence,» they noted.

This week the crime prevention minister Norman Baker announced that the government had decided to opt out of proposals for a directive on new psychoactive substances (NPS), fearing that they would «fetter the UK's discretion» to control legal highs.

«Hair testing for new psychoactive substances is an important new addition to biological testing.

«In the last 12 months, all reports speak of drug issues, and by and large that is new psychoactive substances,» she says.

New psychoactive substances (NPS) such as Spice caused 204 deaths in 2015 alone according to official figures, along with a spike in hospitalisations.

Last September Nigel Newcomen, the prison and probation ombudsman, attributed 58 deaths in custody between 2013 and 2016 to new psychoactive substances.

Legal highs, or new psychoactive substances (NPS), are nasty, dangerous white powders and vaguely herbal smoking mixtures.

One of the least - noticed aspects of the new psychoactive substances bill is that it effectively scraps the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD).

This is a slightly disingenuous point given that an influx of «legal highs», or New Psychoactive Substances (NPS), have taken a foothold in the UK consumer market and distorts accuracy.

The proliferation of new psychoactive substances is influenced by regional, national and international forces.

In a ministerial statement this week he explains how the coalition government «strongly dispute the evidence base stated in the EU Commission's impact assessment which estimates that 20 % of new psychoactive substances have a legitimate use».

In 2010 alone, 41 new psychoactive substances were reported by European nations — more than triple the amount identified in 2008, according to a report issued by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.

Between 2005 and 2012, the European Union's early warning system registered just under 240 new psychoactive substances that were disguised as incense blends, bath salts or plant fertiliser, and around 140 of them contained synthetic cannabinoids.

New psychoactive substances have been associated with fatalities and severe injuries in a number of cases in the U.S. and have led investigators to rethink traditional drug monitoring protocols.

Development of a Universal Internet - Based Prevention Program for Ecstasy and New Psychoactive Substances