A NEW highly addictive drug used in Britain by clubbers and gay men is becoming a global problem, according to a United Nations report published today. The huge increase in use of methamphetamine — crystal meth — is being helped by lax restrictions on the chemicals used to manufacture it. People who take it can experience a ten-hour high and increased sexual arousal. Professor Hamid Ghodse, president of a United Nations’ drug control agency, said: “If I want to pick on one major drug problem pandemic today, it is methamphetamine. “It has not yet affected that much of Western European countries and the UK but, as we know, as drug misuse occurs in North America, sooner or later it gets here. “Methamphetamine is today’s problem drug. We think that it is extremely worrying. ...
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