BREAKING: Students who fell ill at Hucknall's National Academy may have used legal highs
POLICE believe a herbal-based substance could have been responsible for the illness of ten students at a Notts school.
Officers were called to the National Academy in Hucknall at 2.10pm on Friday, March 8 following reports of of pupils feeling sick and dizzy.
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The National Academy
The force has been working with the school to investigate the incident and discover how the pupils obtained the substance.
Sergeant Simon Scales from Ashfield South said: “We have been working to identify the substance and we now believe it to be a herbal-based legal high.
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“This is particularly worrying. Using legal highs as recreational drugs carries a number of risks. Users cannot be clear what ingredients are in them and they can cause unpredictable reactions as seen last week at The National Academy.
“Studies suggest a large majority of legal highs contain Class B and C controlled drugs, which means they are not in fact ‘legal’, and can be harmful.
“Sellers of legal highs do not care for the consequences, they simply see it as a way to make easy money. We know that other substances such as caffeine, that is sold in various forms as a legal substance, can cause serious side effects, and even death if misused.”
3 Comments
by derkaiser
Friday, March 15 2013, 7:24PM
“If Cannabis were legal they'd have been perfectly ok, except that they'd take a while to stop laughing!
Alcohol is the most destructive of all 'recreational' drugs and it's legal. Cannabis is the cheapest and safest recreational drug and it's illegal. This is completely beyond me. This has to change if we want to avoid instances like this one. With Cannabis we know what we're getting and, man, it's really good!!!
Legalise Cannabis now. This instant. Yesterday if possible.
Or stay sheep who get sick.”
by NFFC1898
Friday, March 15 2013, 12:48PM
“If you lie down with dogs you ge fleas!!”
by Sunnysideup
Friday, March 15 2013, 11:26AM
“Let's hope the kids have all recovered now and are facing severe punishment from the school along with a stern talking to from the Police.”