Presented by Jeremy Sare, Director of Policy and Communiations at Mentor UK on 24 May 2017.
For more information about NPS, visit http://mentoruk.org.uk/legal-highs/
3. Routes of NPS Supply
Headshops Online market Street trade
4. Psychoactive Substances Act (1)
• Journey to PSA
• MDA/TCDOs
• Expert Panel
• Home Affairs
Committee
• ACMD
• Amendments
• Education and
Treatment provision
5. PsychoactiveSubstancesAct (2)
• No classification,
wide range of harms
• Supply offences not
possession
• Proving
psychoactivity
• Harms unchanged in
high risk groups
• Enforcement
offences and figures
6. Impact on Supply of NPS
Darknet
Existing
supply
500
headshops
Online
market
Street
trade
7. NPSMeasuresand Indicators
• Home Office Figures (Nov
2016)
• Met Police 160 Arrests
(May to Nov 2016)
• Prison Seizures - RAPt
(November 2016)
• Ambulance Callouts
Double (May 2017)
• Prison Ombudsman - 58
fatalities (2013-6)
8. NPSMeasuresandIndicators(2)
• Addaction Report 50%+
drug admissions 2006-16
• RIDR (March 2017)
• CS E&W 2015/6: 0.7%
adults, 3.6% males 16-24
• Drugwise Report (Feb
2017)
• Addaction Report Young
People (March 2017)
• Internet Monitoring
Retail Websites,
Dark Web, News sites
9. Measuring the Progress of
PSA 2016 - APPG
Street
dealing Availability
Online
trade
High
street
trade
Dark
netAvailability
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