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Drug dealer who supplied heroin and cocaine in the Worcester area will spend longer in prison.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Patients should not stop any treatments without consulting their doctor or pharmacist.
A number of so-called ‘legal highs’ will become illegal class b drugs, the Home Office announced today.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
A lethal psychedelic drug should be controlled as a Class A substance, according to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD).
Both offenders will serve longer prison sentences after their sentences were referred under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme
Letter to the chair of the ACMD inviting them to establish a working group to respond to the recent white paper on drug possession.
First published during the 2022 Truss Conservative government
Members of an organised crime group involved in the supply of drugs and stolen military ammunition have been jailed for a total of 68 years and eight months.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
The CMA has fined firms over £35 million for an illegal arrangement in the supply of important NHS prescription anti-nausea tablets.
A personal trainer was sentenced today to 31 months in jail for selling and supplying unlicensed and prescription medicines, together with Anabolic steroids, to the public.
Perpetrators of anti-social behaviour will face swift and visible justice, with nitrous oxide banned and police given more powers to test for drugs on arrest.
Operation Pangea - Officers from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have seized millions of illegally traded medicines and medical devices.
TWO lethal ‘legal highs’ should be controlled as class A substances, recommends the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD).
Employment Tribunal decision.
Close working with Merseyside Police leads to arrest.
It is suspected that the pills were being sold through illegally operating websites
A man has been jailed for 30 years for smuggling millions of pounds worth of drugs into the UK, following an investigation by the UK Border Agency.
A number of so-called 'legal highs' including Black Mamba and Mexxy became illegal Class B drugs today.
A number of so-called 'legal highs' will become illegal Class B drugs, the Home Office announced today
A new temporary control power will be used for the first time to ban so-called legal high 'mexxy', the government announced today.
Coalition government takes range of action to respond to challenges of new psychoactive substances.
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