{"id":42763,"date":"2023-06-26T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/06\/26\/monkey-dust-like-dancing-with-the-devil\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T09:58:00","slug":"monkey-dust-like-dancing-with-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=42763","title":{"rendered":"Monkey dust like &#8216;dancing with the devil&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">An addict who has used monkey dust for five years has described taking the drug as &#8220;soul-destroying&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He was speaking as a taskforce, looking at how to tackle problems caused by the psychoactive substance, begins work in Stoke-on-Trent.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The government is considering reclassifying the synthetic drug, making it what is called a Class A substance &#8211; the most serious for sentencing in courts.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The anonymous addict has been speaking to BBC Midlands Today&#8217;s Liz Copper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">If you are affected by any of the issues raised in this story, support and advice is available via the <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/articles\/1kS7QTDB16PWkywhsXJLzxz\/information-and-support-addiction-alcohol-drugs-and-gambling\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">BBC Action Line.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-65991455?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] An addict who has used monkey dust for five years has described taking the drug as &#8220;soul-destroying&#8221;. He was speaking as a taskforce, looking at how to tackle problems &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}