Policy

Drug misuse and dependency

• From: Home Office
• Applies to: England (see policy for Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales)

Drug misuse harms the health and wellbeing of too many people. We want to reduce the number misusing illegal and other harmful drugs and increase the number who successfully recover from drug dependence. We want to restrict the supply of drugs by identifying and prosecuting those involved in the drug trade, and confiscating the proceeds of crime.

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• Prescribing of controlled drugs by therapeutic radiographers: further advice

  • Display type: Correspondence
  • From: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
  • Updated: 19 January 2017

• Precursor chemical import and export authorisation wallchart

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 1 January 2017

• Psychoactive substances ban 6 months on: almost 500 arrests and first convictions

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 29 December 2016

• Further advice on U-47,700, etizolam and other designer benzodiazepines

  • Display type: Correspondence
  • From: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
  • Updated: 22 December 2016

• Advice on U-47,700, etizolam and other designer benzodiazepines

  • Display type: Correspondence
  • From: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
  • Updated: 21 December 2016

• Letter from Sarah Newton: U-47,700 and designer benzodiazepines

  • Display type: Correspondence
  • From: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
  • Updated: 21 December 2016

• Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001: impact on research

  • Display type: Correspondence
  • From: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
  • Updated: 16 December 2016

• Precursor chemical licensing

  • Display type: Detailed guide
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 16 December 2016

• Plant cannabinoids: ACMD report

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
  • Updated: 16 December 2016

• Pregabalin and gabapentin: letter from Sarah Newton to the ACMD

  • Display type: Correspondence
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 15 December 2016

• Medicines supplementing use of other illicit drugs, says ACMD

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
  • Updated: 15 December 2016

• Diversion & illicit supply of medicines

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
  • Updated: 15 December 2016

• New chair of Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Home Office and 1 others
  • Updated: 14 December 2016

• ACMD tells ministers drug-related deaths will continue to rise if treatment programmes are not maintained

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
  • Updated: 12 December 2016

• Reducing opioid-related deaths in the UK

  • Display type: Independent report
  • From: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
  • Updated: 12 December 2016

• Drug and alcohol addiction, and obesity: effects on employment outcomes (independent review)

  • Display type: Consultation outcome
  • From: Department for Work and Pensions
  • Updated: 5 December 2016

• Drug and alcohol addiction, and obesity: effects on employment outcomes

  • Display type: Independent report
  • From: Department for Work and Pensions
  • Updated: 5 December 2016

• Circular 010/2016: a change to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971

  • Display type: Correspondence
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 2 December 2016

• 'Third generation' synthetic cannabinoids

  • Display type: Correspondence
  • From: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
  • Updated: 15 November 2016

• Methiopropamine temporary class drug order: ministerial response

  • Display type: Correspondence
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 31 October 2016

• Temporary class drug order on methiopropamine

  • Display type: Correspondence
  • From: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
  • Updated: 30 September 2016

• Problems for Ageing Drug Users Working Group: public meeting invitation

  • Display type: Promotional material
  • From: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
  • Updated: 9 September 2016

• Independent prescribing of controlled drugs by therapeutic radiographers

  • Display type: Correspondence
  • From: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
  • Updated: 5 September 2016

• Headshops closed and offenders arrested after 'legal highs' ban

  • Display type: News story
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 26 August 2016

• New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) resource pack

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 2 August 2016

• Dienedione and synthetic cannabinoids: letter from Karen Bradley to the ACMD

  • Display type: Correspondence
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 22 July 2016

• Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs recruiting new chair

  • Display type: News story
  • From: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
  • Updated: 24 June 2016

• General security guidance for controlled drug suppliers

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 27 May 2016

• Controlled drugs list

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 26 May 2016

• Public Health Outcomes Framework

  • Display type: Collection
  • From: Public Health England
  • Updated: 26 May 2016

• Trade in so-called 'legal highs' now illegal

  • Display type: News story
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 26 May 2016

• Circular 004/2016: Psychoactive Substances Act 2016

  • Display type: Correspondence
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 20 May 2016

• Psychoactive Substances Act: guidance for retailers

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 20 May 2016

• Psychoactive Substances Act: guidance for researchers

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 20 May 2016

• Methylphenidate-based NPS: letter from Karen Bradley to the ACMD

  • Display type: Correspondence
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 29 April 2016

• Advice on the anticonvulsant drugs Pregabalin and Gabapentin

  • Display type: Correspondence
  • From: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
  • Updated: 14 January 2016

• Advice on the steroid Dienedione

  • Display type: Correspondence
  • From: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
  • Updated: 14 January 2016

• Public Health Outcomes Framework 2013 to 2016

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Department of Health
  • Updated: 10 December 2015

• Circular 028/2015: Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Temporary Class Drug) (No. 3) Order 2015

  • Display type: Correspondence
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 26 November 2015

• Ministerial response to ACMD advice on temporary control under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971

  • Display type: Correspondence
  • From: Home Office
  • Updated: 26 November 2015