Study appears to contradicts claims by critics of crackdown that it would drive demand underground rather than reducing it.
Consumption of so-called legal highs fell sharply after a Government crackdown on “head shops” that sold them, new research indicates. There was a significant drop in both recent and problematic use among young people of psychoactive drugs in the year after the 2010 crackdown, according to scientists from Trinity College Dublin.
The study, although small in size, appears to confound claims made by critics of the crackdown that it would drive demand underground rather than reducing it. Researchers studied two groups of young people attending a drug and alcohol treatment centre in Dublin. The first group attended the service immediately before the legal changes designed to drive head shops out of business were introduced and the second attended a year later, after the ban came into effect.
Source: Paul Cullen, The Irish Times, 30/06/15
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