Angelus Welcomes ITV Tonight's "Blowing the Lid" on Legal Highs Industry

Angelus Welcomes ITV Tonight'sAngelus Welcomes ITV Tonight's "Blowing the Lid" on Legal Highs Industry PR Newswire LONDON, October 17, 2013 The Angelus Foundation welcomes the broadcast of the ITV Tonight programme 'Dying to get High' on Thursday 17 October, highlighting the horrors the epidemic of legal highs presents to families throughout the UK. This expose will leave parents under no illusion that their young are in serious danger of being robbed of their mental wellbeing; and potentially even their lives. Experimenting with legal highs has, in many places, become part of youth culture. Last year, in England and Wales, there were 52 deaths from legal highs, compared to 29 the previous year, and a further 47 in Scotland. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime last month estimated the numbers of young people in the UK (aged 15-24) who have taken a legal high as 670,000 - making us the highest consumers in Europe. As well as loss of life, these substances can cause anything from long-term psychosis, paranoia, deep depression, irreparable bladder damage and impaired eyesight. Angelus is the only charity dedicated to raising awareness of legal highs and club drugs. Today, Angelus is able to help the deep concerns of parents by launching the free handbook 'Talking to your Children about legal highs and club drugs', in partnership with the charity Adfam and the Club Drug Clinic, which can be downloaded.