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PPO learning lessons NPS New Psychoactive Substances

New psychoactive substances a factor in some prisoner deaths, says Ombudsman

July 7, 2015

The use of new psychoactive substances (NPS) is suspected to have played a part in the deaths of some prisoners, said Nigel Newcomen, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO). Today he published a bulletin on the lessons that can be… Read More

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