Legal highs: Lab-made drugs 'made me dead inside'

On Tuesday the House of Lords will debate government plans to ban so-called legal highs, but there is a warning from Ireland, which brought in a similar ban five years ago, that the model for Britain's legislation is flawed.

All sides agree that something must be done to deal with the threat from new laboratory-made drugs - but while Ireland's Psychoactive Substances Act has closed the shops selling them, it has not removed them from the streets.

David O'Leary told the BBC's Mark Easton that his life had been decimated by using the drug Clockwork Orange.