'Legal Highs': Fighting new psychoactive substances with the latest law...
Nov 07, 2016, 04:20 PM
(Broadcast on BBC Radio, November 2016)
A Stoke-on-Trent drugs charity has told the BBC that so-called legal highs are a "growing enemy" in the city.
In May a new law came into force to make it illegal to produce or supply new psychoactive substances -- which were linked to 100 deaths in the UK last year.
Staffordshire Police have told BBC Radio Stoke they've arrested 25 people since the legislation -- mostly men in their twenties.
BBC Radio Stoke's EMMA THOMAS has been out on the beat in Hanley with PC Lee Robinson...