Health Warning Legal Highs Drugs

Legal highs endanger health

Drug commissioners and police authorities are warning of the health consequences of the commercially available legal highs drugs

20.12.2010

The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the Federal Drug Commissioner, Mechthild Dyckmans (FDP) are currently warning against the use of the so-called „Legal highs“. Consumption of semi-legal drugs creates numerous health risks, as stated in a monthly joint statement.

The Federal Criminal Police Office and the Drug Commissioner of the Federal Government, Mechthild Dyckmans (FDP), have warned of health risks through so-called legal highs. The substances are legal in so-called „Head shops“ However, there is clear evidence that the attached substances pose a significant hazard to health. The products are offered in specialized stores as fragrance pollinators, bath salts or herbal mixtures. However, the actual use is intended to be used as a purported legal alternative to prohibited drugs. At the beginning of December this year, for example, it became known that many adolescents had to be admitted to a clinic because they were selling their own herb mix „Lava Red“ inhaled. In addition, many health experts said that the substances have a high risk of addiction held.

The products are mostly declared as harmless and legally by the manufacturers. However, according to analyzes, the police authorities repeatedly find chemically composed and anesthetizing agents that are not identified on the packaging. "There are incalculable health risks associated with consumption," said drug commissioner Dyckmans. Mostly a long time passes before the products are banned. But the authorities are coming to the flood of new „Legal highs“ barely behind. If a product has been banned, a new one will appear on the market.

Consumers smoke, sniff or swallow products to get intoxicated. The Federal Criminal Police Office is now known numerous cases in which mostly young people had to be spent after consumption or smoking with sometimes serious and life-threatening poisoning in a clinic. Patients often complained of cardiovascular complaints, abdominal pain, confusion, loss of consciousness, psychosis, muscle breakdown or even acute kidney failure. (Sb)

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