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Services

  1. NDTMS: community combined review forms

    Combined Review Forms (CRF) for community treatment services to use for Core Dataset P (CDS-P), from April 2020 onwards.

  2. NDTMS: secure setting outcomes forms

    Outcome monitoring forms for use by secure setting from April 2020 for core dataset P.

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Guidance and regulation

  1. COVID-19: guidance for commissioners and providers of services for people who use drugs or alcohol
    • Guidance
    • Department of Health and Social Care and Public Health England
  2. Controlled drugs list
    • Guidance
    • Home Office
  3. Drug misuse and dependence: UK guidelines on clinical management
    • Guidance
    • Department of Health and Social Care
  4. Precursor chemical licensing
    • Detailed guide
    • Home Office
  5. Home Office approved testing kits: annex A
    • Guidance
    • Home Office
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News and communications

Correspondence

ACMD advice on administration rights for therapeutic radiographer independent prescribers

Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs

  1. Call for evidence: barriers to research with controlled drugs
    • Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
    • Correspondence
  2. ACMD public evidence gathering: request for written evidence
    • Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
    • News story
  3. Letter from the ACMD to the Home Secretary: GHB, GBL, and related compounds
    • Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
    • Correspondence
  4. Advice on Epidyolex
    • Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
    • Correspondence
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Research and statistics

  1. Novel benzodiazepines: prevalence and harms in the UK
    • Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
    • Research
  2. Substance misuse treatment in secure settings: 2018 to 2019
    • Public Health England
    • Official statistics
  3. Shooting Up: infections among people who inject drugs in the UK
    • Public Health England
    • Research
  4. Substance misuse treatment for young people: statistics 2018 to 2019
    • Public Health England
    • National statistics
  5. Substance misuse treatment for adults: statistics 2018 to 2019
    • Public Health England
    • National statistics
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. NDTMS annual reports and methodology: proposed changes
    • Public Health England
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 25 August 2019
  2. NDTMS criminal justice intervention teams dataset: proposed changes
    • Public Health England
    • Closed consultation
    • Date closed 26 August 2019
  3. ACMD ageing cohort of drug users report: government response
    • Department of Health and Social Care
    • Policy paper
  4. Drug related harms in homeless populations: government response
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government and Department of Health and Social Care
    • Policy paper
  5. Drugs policy and medicinal cannabis report: government response
    • Department of Health and Social Care
    • Policy paper
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Standard Operating Procedure for using evidence in ACMD reports
    • Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
    • Corporate report
  2. Commissioning impact on drug treatment
    • Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
    • Corporate report
  3. Drug strategy 2016: development review
    • Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
    • Corporate report
  4. Psychoactive Substances Bill: evaluation review
    • Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
    • Corporate report
  5. Methiopropamine: a review of the evidence of use and harm
    • Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
    • Corporate report
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