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Safety leaflet on opioid medicines to help patients and their families reduce the risks of harm.
The penalties if you are caught taking or dealing drugs - drug classification, fines and prison sentences
Get help to classify cigarettes, cigars, raw tobacco, smoking tobacco, tobacco for heating and nicotine substitutes for import and export.
Foresight project looking at how future scientific advances may affect our understanding of addiction and drug use.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse on your platform.
Manual for healthcare practitioners on building and carrying out an effective plan for recovery from substance addiction.
People are urged to seek advice from healthcare professionals if they feel they have become dependent on or addicted to codeine linctus.
What animal by-products (ABPs) are, how to set up a site that uses them safely, the paperwork you need, and how to dispose of them.
Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in the UK.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
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