ISSUES
: Drugs
Index
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Index
addiction
see also
treatment
addiction services 35
as a health/medical issue 29, 32
to heroin 34
impact on family and friends 38
to over-the-counter medicines 10
overview of 33
risk factors 36–7
to sugar 39
and teenage drug experimentation 37
alcohol
alcohol substitutes 31
consumption trends 4, 6
and the law 19
parental influence and 4
public health/economic costs 7
use of and school exclusion 12
use of and welfare benefits claims 26
amyl nitrates (poppers) 19, 30
butane hash oil (BHO) 6
cannabis
Brixton cannabis decriminalisation experiment 20–1
classification and penalties for possession 19, 22
consumption trends 5, 6, 21
effects on the brain 11
and emergency medical treatment 7
facts about 1–2
synthetic cannabis 6–7, 30, 31
China 28
cigarettes
consumption trends 4, 6, 21
e-cigarette use 6
and the law 19
cocaine
classification and penalties for possession 19, 22
consumption trends 7
facts about 2
Czech Republic 27
Denmark 28
dependence
see
addiction
drug driving 25
drug legalisation campaigns
Brixton cannabis decriminalisation experiment 20–1
to combat new legal highs 32
decriminalisation 29–30
ideological posturing and 20–1, 24
legalisation of medical marijuana, USA 21, 28
and UK drugs policy 24, 27
drug policies
UK 23–4, 27, 29
worldwide 27–8, 32
drug use
among young people 13, 21, 37
drug taking trends, UK 5, 23–4
reasons for 1
teachers as information sources on 13
and welfare benefits claims 26
drugs, defined 1
e-cigarettes 6
ecstasy
classification and penalties for possession 19, 22
consumption trends 5
effects on the brain 11
and emergency medical treatment 7–8
facts about 2
phenethylamines (legal highs) 31
superdose pills 8
emergency medical treatment
for cannabis use 7
for ecstasy use 7–8
rise in, Brixton cannabis decriminalisation experiment
20–1
from synthetic cannabis use 6–7
FRANK (website) 12, 13
health
addiction as a health/medical issue 29, 32
psychological and emotional development 1
risks from legal highs 18, 23, 31–2
heroin
classification and penalties for possession 19, 22
consumption trends 23
dependence on 34
effects on the brain 11
facts about 2–3
HIV infection
of intravenous drug users 23
sexually risky behaviour 1
and steroid injecting 14, 15
intravenous drug use
anabolic steroids and 14, 15–16
and HIV/hepatitis infection 14, 15, 23
Ireland 29
Japan 27–8
ketamine
classification and penalties for possession 19, 22
effects on the brain 11
khat 22
laws
see also
drug legalisation campaigns
banning legal highs 30–1
on drug driving 25
Misuse of Drugs Act 19, 24, 30, 31
penalties and drug classification 19, 22
legal highs
see also
nitrous oxide/laughing gas
alcohol substitutes 31
costs 9
deaths from 17, 18
and emergency medical treatment 6–7
festival website blackouts 17
health risks of 18, 23, 31–2
impact on homeless communities 9
incidents involving 17, 18
laws against 30–1
overview of 9, 31
phenethylamines 31
range of 31
salvia 30
strategies for 32
synthetic cannabinoids 6–7, 30, 31
use by young adults 5
