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London 2012 anti-doping facilities to be developed into groundbreaking Phenome Centre with cutting edge facilities.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The Department, together with the Ministry of Justice and the Youth Justice Board, has issued a dear colleague letter that sets out policy for…
Funding for substance misuse services in England for 2012-13.
Prime Minister: "We want to do for drug driving what drink driving laws have done for driving under the influence of alcohol."
Following the launch last month of 8 payment by results pilot sites for drugs and alcohol recovery treatment services, the Payment by Results…
The government has used a temporary class drug order for the first time to ban the ‘legal high’ methoxetamine, also called ‘mexxy’ or MXE. From…
The Department of Health, the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice have today sent a joint letter to local authority chief executives, chief…
A letter from the Secretary of State setting out the government’s priorities for inclusion in the work programme for the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.
Published today, the new public health outcomes framework sets out desired outcomes for public health - and how outcomes will be measured.
Consideration of the use of foil as an intervention, to reduce the harms of heroin and cocaine.
As part of the Government’s October 2010 spending review, responsibility for the funding of non-clinical substance misuse services in contracted…
This written ministerial statement was laid in the House of Commons on 15 November 2011 by Theresa May and House of Lords by Lord Henley…
ACMD Anabolic Steroids Advice (2011).
A joint letter from Richard Bradshaw, the DH Director of Offender Health, and Rosanna O'Connor, the Director of Delivery for the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, has been published today.
This joint letter from the DH Director of Offender Health and the Director of Delivery for the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse explains the commissioning of prison-based substance misuse services post-April 20…
Detailed definitions that should be used in measuring outcomes from pilots relating to the Drug and Alcohol Payment by Results initiative have been agreed and finalised.
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) invites members of the public to its open meeting on Monday 31 October 2011, from 10am-12…
ACMD response to proposed amendment to the Misuse of Drugs - Safe Custody - NI- Regulations 1973.
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) published a report on the use of anabolic steroids by the general public, and in particular young people.
ACMD’s advice that the legal high desoxypipradrol (2-DPMP) should be contriolled as a Class B drug. Date: Tue Sep…
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