Next in our new series on rough sleeping, we talk to Dr Oliver Sutcliffe and Robert Ralphs, psycho-chemistry and criminology lecturers from Manchester Metropolitan University, about the drug Spice. What is it? Where does it come from? Why has the problem become so prevalent? What street drugs are likely to come next?

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