We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
Fifteen additional synthetic opioids are now under the strictest controls to prevent drug related deaths and ensure anyone caught supplying them faces tough penalties.
The Advisory Council's report states that Ketamine should be controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.
The home of Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs on GOV.UK. The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs makes recommendations to government on the control of dangerous or otherwise harmful drugs, including classification …
The Novel Psychoactive Substances Committee (NPSC) is seeking evidence for its review of the evidence of the misuse and harms of synthetic cathinones in the UK.
Ketamine should be upgraded to a Class B drug following increased evidence of bladder damage from frequent misuse, experts have recommended.
Safe housing key to tackling homeless drug misuse, says ACMD.
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs makes recommendations to government on the control of dangerous or otherwise harmful drugs, including classification and scheduling under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and its regul…
Details of the council's committees and latest meeting minutes.
The government responds to the ACMD's report on recently encountered novel benzodiazepines and related compounds.
In October 2001 the Home Secretary asked the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs to review the classification of cannabis preparations in…
This report provides an updated harms assessment of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) and related substances.
This report provides an updated assessment of the health and social harms of nitrous oxide.
A review of the evidence on the use and harms of 2-benzyl benzimidazole (nitazene) and piperidine benzimidazolone (brorphine-like) opioids.
A review of the evidence on the use, harms and prevalence of recently encountered uncontrolled novel benzodiazepines and related compounds (2024 update).
In October 2010 the minister responsible for drugs asked the ACMD to review khat by considering the available evidence and to advise the government…
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has recommended the control of three prescription medicines
This report has considered the harms and control of 2-methyl-AP-237 and other closely related acyl piperazine opioids.
A lethal psychedelic drug should be controlled as a Class A substance, according to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD).
Government response to the ACMD's advice on the prescribing of controlled drugs by paramedics and on the administration rights of morphine by injection for therapeutic radiographers.
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has provided an updated harms assessment of alkyl nitrites.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).