Legal Highs: Daniel's story, rehab after 30 years of addiction...

Nov 07, 2016, 04:05 PM

(Broadcast on BBC Radio, November 2016)

"An explosion, like nothing before to hit this town" -- that's how the arrival of so-called legal highs in Stoke-on-Trent has been described by one of the city's leading addiction charities. A law passed in May made it illegal to produce or sell new psychoactive substances -- with 24 people arrested in Staffordshire since then.

Emma Thomas has been speaking to Daniel, just ten days since he was released from rehab...