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Report finds prescription-only medicines are being used to supplement the use of other illicit drugs, including cocaine and heroin.
Minister for Vulnerability, Safeguarding and Countering Extremism Sarah Newton today (14 December) announced Dr Owen Bowden-Jones as the new chair of the ACMD.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
A report published today (Monday, 12 December) by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs investigates the causes of the increase and potential responses.
Richard Sangster, leader of the DH obesity policy team, looks to the future of food in the fight against childhood obesity.
Letter to NHS trust and foundation trust (FT) chief executives in England.
Provides information about a change to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 that comes into effect on 14 December 2016.
Response to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) about re-making the current TCDO on methiopropamine.
Letter about the temporary class drug order on methiopropamine.
Includes: Health matters; diabetes prevalence data; Men B vaccine success; National Diet and Nutrition Survey data.
People are urged to use the updated tool to find out their heart age and their risk of heart attack and stroke this World Heart Day.
The Helping Smokers Quit Programme is a call to action for all clinicians in London to tackle tobacco dependence.
Letter about the prescribing of controlled drugs by therapeutic radiographers.
Three months after landmark legislation commenced on 26 May 2016, figures show 332 retailers no longer selling psychoactive substances and 186 arrests.
UK reaches out to Indian innovators to participate in the coveted Longitude Prize using Indian seed funding.
Letter from the former Minister for Preventing Abuse, Exploitation and Crime, to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs about dienedione and synthetic cannabinoids.
Move More is a Sheffield-wide strategy that aims to make Sheffield the most active city in the UK by 2020.
This 2012 campaign encouraged people to see their doctor if they have had blood in their poo or looser poo for the last 3 weeks.
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) is recruiting a new chairperson to advise the government on issues relating to drug misuse.
Psychoactive Substances Act comes into force today.
First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government
Provides information about the Psychoactive Substances Act, which comes into effect on Thursday 26 May 2016.
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