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Safety leaflet on opioid medicines to help patients and their families reduce the risks of harm.
Pharmacy, prescription-only (POM), and general sale list (GSL) medicines: apply to move your medicine to a different classification.
The MHRA is asking for views on a proposal to make Nuromol Dual Action Pain Relief 200mg/500mg tablets (ibuprofen/paracetamol) available without prescription in general sales outlets, such a supermarkets.
Applying for an individual domestic drugs licence to prescribe cocaine, diamorphine and dipipanone for the treatment of addiction.
People are urged to seek advice from healthcare professionals if they feel they have become dependent on or addicted to codeine linctus.
Advice for healthcare professionals on the reclassification of codeine linctus to a prescription-only medicine (POM), following a public consultation.
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