The growth in legal highs and the growing number of fatalities

 

This quick photo of an article in London's Metro last month highlights the problems found on East Lancashire's streets. The growing menace in the high street of legal highs now totalling some 57 types this year so far. Black Mamba particularly has had press coverage of people who have badly affected by it.

Significantly the number of deaths from legal highs rose between 2009 and 2010 from 5