LISTEN: Are Scotland's Schools Doing Enough To Educate Our Young People On Legal Highs?

Published 6th Jul 2015

For the last few months we've been investigating legal highs and how they affect Scotland.

The drugs - also known as new pyschoactive substances - appear to be rising in popularity with young people. That's despite them being linked to hundreds of deaths in recent years.

So our reporter Hope Webb asked the Scottish Government's Minister for Learning, Alasdair Allan, if enough is being done in Scotland's schools, to protect young people against legal highs.

You can listen to what he had to say here: