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Safety leaflet on opioid medicines to help patients and their families reduce the risks of harm.
Foresight project looking at how future scientific advances may affect our understanding of addiction and drug use.
People are urged to seek advice from healthcare professionals if they feel they have become dependent on or addicted to codeine linctus.
Manual for healthcare practitioners on building and carrying out an effective plan for recovery from substance addiction.
Current and former UK chief medical officers (CMOs) and current deputy CMOs write for The Times on the introduction of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.
Resource for commissioners, providers and clinicians to identify the essential functions of addiction specialist doctors in recovery oriented treatment.
Research with claimants to inform Dame Carol Black's report 'Drug and alcohol addiction, and obesity: effects on employment outcomes'.
Review of the outcomes of the Foresight 'Brain science, addiction and drugs' project in the year following its launch.
PHE NW Education, Training and Employment (ETE) forum advise on considerations for ETE support for clients in drug and alcohol treatment.
Dame Carol Black's independent review into the effects on employment outcomes of drug or alcohol addiction and obesity.
Advice for healthcare professionals on the reclassification of codeine linctus to a prescription-only medicine (POM), following a public consultation.
Applying for an individual domestic drugs licence to prescribe cocaine, diamorphine and dipipanone for the treatment of addiction.
Professor Sir Chris Whitty writes for The Guardian on smoking addiction and MPs' historic opportunity to vote on the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.
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