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Emerging Drug Trends: Impact on Police Enforcement Strategies

Explore the evolving landscape of drug enforcement, from reducing supply and demand to minimizing harm through interventions and innovation, focusing on emerging substances like BZP, "SPICE," mephedrone, and naphyrone. Analyze the legislative developments from December 2009 to July 2010, including the implications of the EMCDDA Early Warning System and the mephedrone emergence in Europe and Scotland. Investigate sources such as internet platforms, headshops, and street-level dealers for marketing substances labeled as plant food or bath salts, highlighting the legal complexities and research findings on consumer information. Examine mephedrone recoveries per force, drug-related deaths, and the ACPOS Drug Death Review criteria, discussing fatal road traffic collisions, suicides, substances not controlled, and the use of temporary banning orders to address export, production, importation, supply, and possession with intent to supply.

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Emerging Drug Trends: Impact on Police Enforcement Strategies

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  1. Police Perspectives and Enforcement

  2. ACPOS Drug Strategy • Reduce Supply • Reduce Demand • Reduce Harm • Use of Intervention & Innovation

  3. Emerging Drugs • BZP and “SPICE” • MEPHEDRONE • NAPHYRONE

  4. Legislation • December 2009 • April 2010 • July 2010

  5. EMCDDA Early Warning System • 2005 – 14 (New Substances) • 2006 – 7 • 2007 – 15 • 2008 – 13 • 2009 – 24

  6. Mephedrone Emergence • Europe – March 2008 • Scotland – April 2009

  7. Sources • Internet • Headshops • Street Level Dealer

  8. Marketing • Plant Food/Bath Salts • Not For Human Consumption • For Research Purposes • 100% legal in UK • Research findings – “For individuals purchasing these drugs, the name of the product is insufficient information for buyers to be confident as to their exact content”

  9. Mephedrone Recoveries

  10. Recoveries per Force

  11. Drug Deaths • SCDEA - ACPOS database • Definition – where there is prima facie evidence of a fatal overdose of controlled drugs…..

  12. Drug Deaths • 2009 – 1 death ‘adverse effects of methadone & mephedrone’ • 2010 – 4 deaths – • 2 West of Scotland • 2 East of Scotland

  13. ACPOS Drug Death Review • Fatal Road Traffic Collisions • Suicides • Substances Not Controlled

  14. Future • Temporary Banning Orders • Export and Production • Importation • Supply • Possession with Intent to Supply • No offence for “simple” possession

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