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Legal highs - an explainer
Release date:
28 April 2016 9:30am
Summary
An explainer into the background of so-called legal highs in advance of a planned blanket ban of all legal highs in the Spring of 2016.
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The phrase 'Pre-release Access' refers to the practice whereby official statistics in their final form, and any accompanying written commentary, are made available to an eligible person in advance of their publication. The rules and principles which govern pre-release access are featured within the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008.
Besides ONS staff, the following persons are given pre-release access by the period indicated before release.
| Access granted to | Organisation | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Briefing Officer | Department of Health | 24hrs |
| Chief Medical Officer | Department of Health | 24hrs |
| Deputy Chief Medical Officer | Department of Health | 24hrs |
| Senior Private Secretary to Chief Medical Officer | Department of Health | 24hrs |
| Private Secretary to Chief Medical Officer | Department of Health | 24hrs |
| Deputy Director, Drug & Alcohol Team | Department of Health | 24hrs |
| Economic Adviser, Health Improvement Analytical Team | Department of Health | 24hrs |
| Analyst | Department of Health | 24hrs |
| Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health | Department of Health | 24hrs |
| Private Secretary to Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health | Department of Health | 24hrs |
| Press Officer | Department of Health | 24hrs |
| Press Officer | Department of Health | 24hrs |
| Secretary of State for Health | Department of Health | 24hrs |
| Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Health | Department of Health | 24hrs |
| Senior Press Officer | Home Office | 24hrs |
| Press Officer | Home Office | 24hrs |
| Senior Policy Advisor | Home Office | 24hrs |
| Senior Executive Officer | Home Office | 24hrs |
| Principal Research Officer | Home Office | 24hrs |
| Research Officer | Home Office | 24hrs |
| Director – Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco Division | Public Health England | 24hrs |
| Policy and Information Officer - Alcohol, Drugs & Tobacco | Public Health England | 24hrs |
| Senior communications officer | Public Health England | 24hrs |
| Programme manager | Public Health England | 24hrs |