by Ella Bicknell More people died from alcohol-specific causes in 2020 than any other year since records began, a new report from the Office for… Read More »Spike in alcohol deaths during pandemic in Yorkshire and rest of UK, ONS figures show
By Joseph Greenough Leeds City Council has launched proposals to ban street partying in the city’s two main student areas, Headingley and Hyde Park. The… Read More »Leeds City Council proposes to ban street partying in Headingley and Hyde Park
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By Alex Worrall
ENGLAND’S CHIEF medical officer has repeated her warning of an “apocalypse” over the growing threat of antibiotic resistance.Read More »Antibiotics will become less effective, say top doctors
Fatal drug overdoses in the UK kill two and half times more people than road traffic accidents and there is no sign of it slowing down.
More than three and a half thousand people lost their lives to drug poisoning in 2015.Read More »More People Die from Overdoses than Road Traffic Accidents
Spice can be as dangerous as heroin
By Leanne Simmons
A TYPE of synthetic cannabis is now being compared to heroin because of its dangers.
The drug, dubbed “Spice”, works on the same receptors that cannabis does, but the effects can be much worse and extreme.
Read More »Synthetic cannabis Spice “as dangerous as heroin” say drugs workers
By Tia-Jane Coyle A YORKSHIREÂ writer and businessman has spoken out about mental health stigma in the hope of encouraging other young people to do… Read More »Author tells of campaign to get mental health taken more seriously
By Mike Berriman A planned party which invited guests to bring “a bag o’ chems” to a house in Headingley has been prevented after the… Read More »Plans for Facebook drugs party halted in Leeds after police step in