{"id":9772,"date":"2014-09-07T15:57:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T15:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=9772"},"modified":"2014-09-07T15:57:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T15:57:22","slug":"after-collapsing-three-times-arbroath-dad-scared-son-will-die-from-taking-legal-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2014\/09\/after-collapsing-three-times-arbroath-dad-scared-son-will-die-from-taking-legal-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"After collapsing three times Arbroath dad \u2018scared son will die from taking legal highs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Arbroath dad has told how he fears for his son\u2019s life after the teen was hospitalised three times through using legal highs. Derek Taylor, 51, is scared to let son Andrew, 19, out of the house because the youngster keeps buying legal highs and has collapsed on three occasions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Each time, Derek has received the nightmare call from medics telling him his son has been rushed to Ninewells Hospital to help him recover. Derek says Andrew used to socialise with Michael McKay, 33, who died earlier this month following a five-month addiction to new psychoactive substances (NPS).<\/p>\n

Now Derek is worried that his son will end up having a similar fate.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIt\u2019s three times that he has had to be taken to Ninewells. \u201cIt happened twice in about a week and then about six months later it happened again.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t stop him using legal highs, but you can always tell when he has been, as his nose is red and he\u2019s sniffing a lot. I\u2019m worried he is going to die. It\u2019s on my mind all the time when he goes out with his pals. He\u2019s 19 and if he keeps using them we\u2019re going to put him out.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to the stage now where he has to be home at a certain time otherwise the door will be locked and he won\u2019t get in, because we know what he\u2019s doing. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I love him \u2014 but I think it\u2019s a total waste that they have to use an ambulance for him when there\u2019s people out there with serious medical problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Derek, who owns breakdown and recovery service Phone a Tow, says his son buys legal highs from an Angus shop. Now Derek insists action must be taken to shut similar retailers down before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI\u2019m totally against the shop and the drugs themselves.I think the use of drugs is always wrong unless it\u2019s for genuine medical reasons. The shop needs to be shut down as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not being used by just a few people. I drive past the shop a lot and there are people going in and out all the time. It\u2019s people of all ages that use it. It\u2019s not just youngsters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: eveningtelegraph.co.uk 30th August 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Arbroath dad has told how he fears for his son\u2019s life after the teen was hospitalised three times through using legal highs. Derek Taylor, 51, is scared to let son Andrew, 19, out of the house because the youngster keeps buying legal highs and has collapsed on three occasions. Each time, Derek has received […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-use-effects-on-foetus","category-legal-highs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}