Fears police and drugs agencies will fail to keep up as a new 'legal high' found every week
Daily Mail Thursday 26th April, 2012
It is the highest number of dangerous new substances ever recorded in a single year, said the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), as it warned of their ‘unprecedented’ growth.
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