How do legal highs affect your brain?

How legal highs affect the brain, especially in teens, including an overview of their dangers and strategies for avoiding their use, tailored for a young audience.

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Understanding Legal Highs and Their Impact on the Brain When you hear the term 'legal highs', it might sound a bit confusing. Despite the name, the legality of these substances often teeters on a fine line with the law. Commonly referred to as new psychoactive substances (NPS), legal highs are drugs that aim to replicate the effects of established illegal recreational drugs like ecstasy, cocaine, and cannabis. What makes them particularly appealing is that they initially manage to skirt the law by undergoing slight chemical modifications. However, due to the risks posed, many nations, including the UK, have moved to...
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