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Do you want to win a £50 Nandos voucher???
- Written by SMST Leicestershire & Rutland
From Monday 29th April 2013 to Friday 10th May 2013 use the hash tag #legalhighslethallows for a chance to win a £50 Nandos voucher.
Follow us on Twitter @SMST_Leics
For more information about other initiatives keep visiting www.legalhighslethallows.co.uk
LEGAL HIGHS LETHAL LOWS – PHASE 2
- Written by SMST Leicestershire & Rutland
Monday 29th April 2013 sees the launch of Phase 2 of the “Legal Highs Lethal Lows” harm minimisation campaign by Leicestershire Substance Misuse Strategic Team. The campaign aims to highlight the risks of legal highs (also known as Novel Psychoactive Substances) and recreational substance misuse. During phase 2 of the campaign we will be introducing initiatives aimed at those enjoying festivals over the summer months and university fresher weeks during September.
Legal Highs are substances which produce the same, or similar effects, to drugs such as cocaine and ecstasy but are not controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act. Legal Highs refers to a broad category of unregulated compounds or products that are marketed as legal alternatives to well-known controlled drugs.
Various initiatives will be running over a five month period across Leicestershire & Rutland to raise awareness of the effects of legal highs and offering help and support, these include: a targeted poster campaign and attendance at Glaston Budget, Download and Strawberry Fields festivals. Free giveaways and the re-launch of our downloadable phone application game “life is a dance floor” with a competition to win the new iPhone 5. Our Twitter campaign will continue with daily news and tweets and partners are encouraged to use our hash tag #legalhighslethallows. Once again we will be working closely with our partners at Leicestershire Police, district and borough community safety partnerships, Swanswell and public health to ensure our communities across Leicestershire and Rutland are aware of the harms of legal highs.
Phase 2 of the “Legal Highs Lethal Lows” campaign will run from 29th April 2013 until 30th September. For more information on the campaign please visit www.legalhighslethallows.co.uk or contact Debbie Langham on 0116 3052680 / This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Life is a dance floor is back!
- Written by SMST Leicestershire
From Monday 29th April 2013 visit our Facebook page or scan the QR code to download our game for a chance to win an iPhone 5 (T&C apply).
This time even faster and harder! Avoid legal highs and alcohol and try to click when icons for dance moves and water appear. Make it past room 4 to VIP room where you will add your name to the leader-board with your point score.
Keep hydrated, sober up! This would give you 20 points! Keep dancing, that would give you 10 points! But avoid alcohol and legal highs. Each time you take them the screen will blur and shake and you will need water to make it through to the next room. Take too much and it’s GAME OVER!
Remember: stay safe, don’t take the risk.
Visit www.legalhighslethallows.co.uk for more information.
UK clubbers more likely to have MDMA than energy drinks
- Written by SMST Leicestershire & Rutland
This year’s Mixmag Global Drugs survey has revealed that regular UK clubbers were more likely to have taken MDMA than energy drink in the past year.
Among UK regular clubbers, 67% had taken MDMA in the past year, compared to 57.7% who had used energy drink.
The reverse was true for US clubbers who took the survey; 66.3% of whom said they had taken energy drinks in the past year, compared to 60.9% who said they had taken MDMA.
See below for the results of UK vs US’s drug use (all data is from the 2013 Global Drug Survey conducted in partnership with Mixmag, the Guardian and Gay Times).
Binge drinking and sleep problems among young adults
- Written by SMST Leicestershire & Rutland
A study confirms that alcohol use, and specifically binge drinking, is positively and significantly associated with various types of sleep problems. The detrimental effects on sleep increase in magnitude with frequency of binge drinking, suggesting a dose-response relationship. Moreover, binge drinking is associated with sleep problems independent of psychiatric conditions.
The statistically strong association between sleep problems and binge drinking found in this study is a first step in understanding these relationships. Future research is needed to determine the causal links between alcohol misuse and sleep problems to inform appropriate clinical and policy responses.
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