Thursday, 29. August 2013
Topic: DRUGS - on August 29, 2013 at 2:06:00 PM CEST
'Legal high' deaths soar to highest number on record
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said deaths linked with the psychoactive substances jumped from 29 in 2011 to 52 last year, an 80 per cent rise.
Even as recently as 2007 the annual number of deaths from the new synthetic drugs was in single figures.
The ONS drug poisoning data also showed deaths from the painkiller tramadol have more than doubled since 2008 to 175 in last year.
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