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Minister for Crime, Policing and Fire promotes the UK’s balanced approach towards tackling drug use, with a focus on the challenge of synthetic opioids.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs’ report on the synthetic opioid known as MT-45.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The government has referred methoxetamine under the new temporary control power to the ACMD for initial advice on harm and control under the…
Two pharmacists who sold ‘industrial’ quantities of Class C controlled drugs were yesterday sentenced to two years’ imprisonment each, suspended for 24 months, at Southwark Crown Court following an investigation by the Criminal Enforcement Unit of the Medicines and Healthcare...
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
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