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Interim guidance and information on the law for healthcare professionals
Applying for an individual domestic drugs licence to prescribe cocaine, diamorphine and dipipanone for the treatment of addiction.
Advice for medical professionals to follow when assessing drivers with drug or alcohol misuse or dependence.
Information about controlled drugs licences for companies that possess, manufacture, produce or supply controlled drugs in England, Wales or Scotland.
It's illegal to drive if you're unfit to do so because you're on legal or illegal drugs, or you have certain levels of drugs or medicine in your blood
FCDO travel advice for Jamaica. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
When entering the UK, you need to prove your medicine is prescribed to you if it contains a controlled drug - find out what proof you need to get.
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
Explains changes to drug driving law and the guidance available for healthcare professionals and users of prescription medicine.
How to account for VAT on goods and services provided by registered health professionals, including doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists.
Guidance on manufacturing, importing, distributing and supplying specially manufactured or ordered products, including cannabis-based products for medicinal use in humans (CBPMs), known as 'specials'
The Home Secretary has formally commissioned the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) to conduct a longer-term review of cannabis-based products for medicinal use.
The therapeutic and medicinal benefits of cannabis-based products – a review of recent evidence.
A list of doctors in the UK who can carry out ENG 1 medicals.
Report examining issues relating to road safety and the use and prescription of medical cannabis.
FCDO travel advice for Taiwan. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
Details of the council's committees and latest meeting minutes.
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