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New recommendations following a recent clinical trial which found that in patients with type 1 hepatorenal syndrome terlipressin may cause serious or fatal respiratory failure at a frequency higher than previously known, and that terlipressin increases the risk of sepsis...
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) has today (6 March 2023) published an updated harms assessment of nitrous oxide.
A summary of letters and drug alerts recently sent to healthcare professionals.
Government ministers and experts from across the home nations came together to discuss new ways to tackle illegal drug use across the UK.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
The government has appointed Dame Carol Black as an independent adviser on drug misuse and will publish an ambitious new drug strategy later this year.
Five projects will receive part of £5 million innovation fund to test new ways to reduce use of so-called recreational drugs.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
The harms of synthetic cathinones are to be re-assessed, to see if some or all, including ‘monkey dust’, may need reclassifying.
Letter from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) on young people’s drug use.
Project ADDER is part of a drive by the UK Government to cut down on drug-related crime and violence.
Law changed to enforce randomised, compulsory drug testing for offenders after they are released from prison.
First published during the 2022 Truss Conservative government
Kit Malthouse MP, Minister for Crime, Policing and Probation, commissions a prevention review from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD).
Two men have had their sentences increased following an intervention by the Solicitor General, The Rt Hon Lucy Frazer QC MP.
Letter to the chair of the ACMD inviting them to establish a working group to respond to the recent white paper on drug possession.
The Home Secretary has asked the ACMD to review the harms caused by nitrous oxide after a concerning rise in use among young people.
A lethal psychedelic drug should be controlled as a Class A substance, according to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD).
A summary of letters and drug alerts recently sent to healthcare professionals, including recommendations to reduce handling errors with leuprorelin-containing depot medicines.
A well-known rapper who ran a county drugs line operation has received an increased prison sentence after his case was referred to the Court of Appeal.
If Fournier’s gangrene is suspected, stop the SGLT2 inhibitor and start treatment urgently (including antibiotics and surgical debridement). Fournier’s gangrene is a rare but potentially life-threatening infection that requires urgent medical attention.
A summary of advice recently issued by the MHRA relating to coronavirus (COVID-19), up to 16 February 2021.
The CMA has imposed fines totalling over £260 million for competition law breaches in relation to the supply of hydrocortisone tablets.
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