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This campaign by The Press intends to make the drug mephedrone illegal.

The drug, commonly known as bubbles, meow, meow or M-CAT, which can cost as little as £3 a dose, is becoming increasingly popular among young people in North and East Yorkshire, but its effects can be devastating.

Phone Jennifer Bell at The Press on 01904 653051 ext 315 or email jennifer.bell@thepress.co.uk for further details.

Mephedrone ‘on sale at schools’

9:52am Tuesday 26th January 2010

THE deadly “legal high” drug mephedrone is being bought and sold in and around North Yorkshire schools, according to a local police sergeant.

Drug curse campaign gathers pace

11:06am Saturday 23rd January 2010

THE Press’s campaign to outlaw the curse of mephedrone is gathering pace – as more York parents reveal their harrowing experiences of the legal but potentially lethal drug’s effects.

‘My 16-year-old son is addicted to mephedrone’

9:38am Friday 22nd January 2010

EVIDENCE continues to be given to The Press of the devastating impact of the drug mephedrone.

Mum tells how ‘legal high’ drug devastated her family

The York mum whose son took mephedrone, with devastating results

10:30am Thursday 21st January 2010

A YORK mother has revealed how the legal drug mephedrone transformed her “loving and gentle” son into an “aggressive and paranoid liar”.

Ban mephedrone now

Det Con Louise Taylor, York’s drugs liaison officer, with samples of the drug mephedrone, which is being used in the city

9:27am Wednesday 20th January 2010

THIS is the new drug at the centre of a potentially deadly craze – and it is perfectly legal.

Press launches campaign for mephedrone to be made illegal

LEGAL, BUT DEADLY: A police officer with a bag of mephedrone, also known as bubbles or meow, meow

9:22am Wednesday 20th January 2010

TODAY The Press launches a campaign for the drug mephedrone to be made illegal.

Head teacher backs The Press campaign

Jeff Bower, head of Woldgate College, in Pocklington

9:21am Wednesday 20th January 2010

THE head of a school at the centre of a drugs scare has given his backing to The Press’s campaign to ban the legal drug mephedrone.

Case study: User reveals it took days to recover from ‘highly addictive’ mephedrone

9:21am Wednesday 20th January 2010

THE ravaging effects of taking mephedrone have been described to The Press by a 27-year-old woman from York who says the drug was ”extremely addictive”.

Woldgate College head issues alert over ‘legal highs’

9:15am Tuesday 19th January 2010

THE head of a school at the centre of a drugs scare has said every head teacher in the country should be aware of “legal highs”.

Woldgate College pupil collapses after taking ‘legal high’

Woldgate College in Pocklington

10:30am Thursday 14th January 2010

A TEENAGE boy has collapsed at school after taking a party drug known as a “legal high”.

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