nps symposium charles berry house tuesday november 3 rd 2015 dr rob hampton...

NPS SymposiumCharles Berry House

Tuesday November 3rd 2015Dr Rob Hampton

Rob.hampton@gp-c82670.nhs.uk

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