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| Soaring spice use by inmates shows prohibition is ineffective |
| By inews.co.uk- Ian Birrell |
| Published: 12/05/2016 |
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The ambulances turn up at Bristol Prison with monotonous regularity. Once every few hours, five times a day, up to 35 times a week, to treat inmates suffering drug overdoses, according to a new report by the Independent Monitoring Board. This is almost six times more often than just one year ago. Each time the offender must be accompanied by two officers from an overstretched staff to hospital, where hard-pressed doctors and nurses spend time fighting to save their lives. Similar scenes can be found across the country. The drugs come in by drone, thrown over walls or smuggled in to the 600 men held in the category B prison. Once these would have been largely cannabis or heroin. Today it tends to be spice, often wrongly called synthetic cannabis although it covers a range of far stronger narcotics created in distant laboratories. It is usually sprayed on herbal materials. But it can even be sprayed over children’s paintings on paper and is virtually undetectable by sniffer dogs. Consequences of use can be severe. Spice is associated with palpitations, paranoia, psychosis, seizures, skin infections and even suicide. One prisoner said he had seen someone stoned on it eating bread they dipped into a bowl of their own vomit, while another saw a zonked inmate drinking water from the toilet. “I felt my brain was being ripped out,” said a third, trying to describe the effects. Yet one inmate in Bristol prison instantly told paramedics who revived him when his heart stopped beating that he would “do it again”. Read More. |
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