A Student Warns About Legal Highs: Synthetic Drugs Have Harmful Effects

A student from London has gotten addicted to legal highs -- or a substance similar to drugs albeit permissible -- warns every one of its effects as she experienced it firsthand. Serena Christie revealed that shops and dealers in the U.K. are doing their best to stock a lot of synthetic drugs before the government passes Psychoactive Substances Act to attract everyone to bulk buy.

Legal High Shops and Dealers

According to Birmingham Mail, Psychoactive Substances Act is about to be passed in London on April 6, but unfortunately, it was moved to a later date. Hence, synthetic drugs can now be freely purchased in news agents and head shops before the new law starts.

In fact, legal high online sellers are marketing their products with 20 percent discount on every order reaching worth £100. They are also offering free next day delivery on every purchase valuing £49 and a "buy two, get two" promo.

Serena Christie gives advice that shops and dealers' advertisements can be enticing for the youth, which might cause "dangerous drug binges." The proposed cheaper prices and other deals might result to selling more synthetic drugs to many teenagers.

Effects Substance Addiction

Serena Christie shared she herself falls a victim with synthetic drugs as she becomes addicted to the substance. In fact, synthetic drugs also have its psychological effect as it makes her paranoid and delusional by smoking 20 "synthetic cannabis joints a day" and trying different kinds and brands.

Hence, Serena Christie felt she is being followed by the police, spied and believed she is infested by fleas inside her body. The Daily Mail reported she was sent to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and was found to have psychosis, a condition caused by her addiction to synthetic drugs.

Is There A Cure For Substance Additction?

Serena Christie is now receiving psychiatric treatment and has been moved under the care of her parents, Alison and Denis Christie, in Birmingham. Her guardians tried their best to help her by teaming with mental health groups that gave her medicines to handle her hallucinations.

Serena Christie's mother revealed seeing her child undergoing synthetic drugs withdrawal is like torture but, eventually, her hallucinations are gone and she begins to recover. Her parents are now seeing the daughter that they used to know that has been changed by the abuser of synthetic drugs.

The family is sharing their story to warn everyone of synthetic drugs, its harmful effects and the dangers it brings. "Just because these drugs are legal, doesn't mean they are safe," Alison Christie said.

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