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NPS SymposiumCharles Berry House
Tuesday November 3rd 2015Dr Rob Hampton
Welcome & Housekeeping
• Fire • Refreshments & food• Toilets• Wifi (BTHUB3 – password bfe437be22)• Phones• Slides/handouts
Scope for today1. What is going on with NPS in LLR? –Problems– Solutions
2. Can all LLR agencies agree collective approaches?
3. Can we agree 5 actions?
NPS Definition• Home Office’s Expert Panel October 2014
• “psychoactive drugs, newly available in the UK, which are not prohibited by the United Nations Drug Conventions but which may pose a public health threat comparable to that posed by substances listed in these conventions.”
NPS Symposium
FEWSForensic Early
Warning System
Psychoactive Substances Bill NPS Resource pack
MoJ NPS Initiative Operation Nitrox Neptune
PHE NPS toolkit for commissioners
RAPT (Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners
Trust) Report Number 4
4th International Conference on
Novel Psychoactive Substances
‘Party Drugs,Club Drugs’
‘NPS’‘Legal highs’
Synthetic Cannabinoid Receptor Agonist (SCRA)‘Synthetics’
Synthetic Cannabinoid Receptor Agonist (SCRA)
• Inspector of Prisons Report 2014-15– Assault 10% rise– Assault on staff 28% rise– Deaths in Custody 29% rise– Self harm 33% rise
• 19 NPS deaths (PPO), 2012-14• 10 fold ‘mark-up’ profit – Opiates 3 fold
• ‘Spice pigs, Mamba Muppets, Mambulance’
Violence – direct or indirect?
• Indirect? - YOI Research Birmingham– debts, gangs, ‘escape’
• Direct? – Front line experience– Service users recall– Non ‘synthetics’ service users
• Strength, paranoia, persistence, seizures, safety.
FEWS – Forensic Early Warning System 2014
• Festivals, Headshops, Internet, Prisons– Completely different patterns
• Mixtures & unpredictable content• Prisons– Non-controlled 738/762 (96%)– 5F-AKB-48 and 5F-PB22 in 78% samples
• Scope for testing??
Scope for today1. What is going on with Synthetics in LLR? – Problems– Solutions
2. Can all LLR agencies agree collective approaches?
3. Can we agree 5 actions?
NPS SymposiumFirst Speaker
Charles Berry HouseTuesday November 3rd 2015
Jude Duncan NPS Lead LiFT CJDT
Service User insight & Treatment Worker resources
NPS SymposiumSecond Speaker
Charles Berry HouseTuesday November 3rd 2015
Tracy CarrPublic Health England
NPS SymposiumThird Speaker
Charles Berry HouseTuesday November 3rd 2015
Dr Paul SmithConsultant Clinical Scientist and Forensic Toxicologist,
University Hospitals of Leicester
5 Possible Actions
