{"id":21272,"date":"2015-07-24T16:06:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T14:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/?p=21272"},"modified":"2015-07-24T16:06:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T14:06:09","slug":"huge-spike-in-psychaoactive-drug-use-amongst-uk-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/huge-spike-in-psychaoactive-drug-use-amongst-uk-young-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge Spike In Psychaoactive Drug Use Amongst UK Young People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For anyone on the ground in nightlife the news may come as a limited surprise, but a new study has found a massive jump in ecstasy and LSD usage amongst young Brits over the past two years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The study shows that an\u00a0estimated 157,000 more people aged 16-24 took ecstasy over the past year compared to two years ago, while about 49,000 more used the hallucinogen LSD over the same period resulting in percentage increases of 84% and 175%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The average of 40% increase in such drug use will prove to be a devastating blow to the UK governments recent implementation of hardline strategies to curb drug use such as its recent psychoactive substances bill of which\u00a0the two class-A drugs are among the drug war\u2019s major targets.<\/p>\n<p>Professor <strong>Fiona Measham<\/strong>, who chairs a working group on polysubstance use for the <strong>Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs<\/strong>, has tried to explain the usage increase by stating,<em>\u201cMy view is that increased purity from 2010 onwards across Europe is making ecstasy in pill, powder and crystal form increasingly attractive, combined with easy availability and relatively low prices.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Measham goes on to attribute the rise in drug use to the resurgence of dance music across the globe in a somewhat misguided attribution,\u00a0<em>\u201cI think now people have got back into raving,\u201d<\/em> she said. <em>\u201cReally there has been a resurgence in dance music, I\u2019ve seen that in my undergraduates. My students all want to be part-time DJs and promoters.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21273\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ecstasygraphic-e1437744364164.jpg\" alt=\"Ecstasy_Use_Young_UK\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2015\/jul\/23\/ecstasy-and-lsd-use-reaches-new-high-among-young?CMP=fb_gu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone on the ground in nightlife the news may come as a limited surprise, but a new study has found a massive jump in ecstasy and LSD usage amongst young Brits over the past two years. The study shows that an\u00a0estimated 157,000 more people aged 16-24 took ecstasy over the past year compared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":21277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3972],"tags":[6529,1623,6417,1422,6528,280],"class_list":["post-21272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-london","tag-advisory-council-on-the-misuse-of-drugs","tag-drugs","tag-lsd","tag-mdma","tag-psychoactive-drug-use","tag-uk","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deephouseamsterdam.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}