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Dangerous Drugs

Over the past few weeks, many people have been saying that mephedrone is killing young people, yet the evidence shows that the young people who are using it—I would not advise them to use it at all, frankly—are often using other drugs as well. Until the coroners' reports have been published, we cannot say whether mephedrone killed Fred Bloggs or not. We have to wait for those reports. The problem is that young people are often using another drug—usually alcohol—as well as mephedrone, and sometimes another drug in addition to those two. So the real problem is poly-drug use. May I urge my right hon. Friend, in his capacity as Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, to look at the poly-drug use problem when Parliament returns?