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UK: Mephedrone more popular since being banned – survey

Four in 10 club-goers questioned say mephedrone is their drug of choice.

Moves to criminalise the new wave of synthetic drugs, known as legal highs, appear to have backfired after it emerged that mephedrone is now more popular among clubbers than when it was not banned.

Confirmation comes in a survey of London club-goers carried out by researchers at Lancaster University and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS foundation trust. Published on Monday in the Journal of Substance Use, it assesses the impact of the classification of mephedrone as a class B drug.

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Source: Jamie Doward, The Guardian, 11/03/2012

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