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Safety leaflet on opioid medicines to help patients and their families reduce the risks of harm.
Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in the UK.
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.
Advice for healthcare professionals on the reclassification of codeine linctus to a prescription-only medicine (POM), following a public consultation.
Advice for medical professionals to follow when assessing drivers with drug or alcohol misuse or dependence.
Information relating to the Tobacco and Vapes Bill which was introduced in the House of Commons on 20 March 2024.
Advice on ingredients in nicotine-containing liquids in electronic cigarettes and refill containers.
People are urged to seek advice from healthcare professionals if they feel they have become dependent on or addicted to codeine linctus.
Fifteen additional synthetic opioids are now under the strictest controls to prevent drug related deaths and ensure anyone caught supplying them faces tough penalties.
New 10-year plan to expand and improve the drug and alcohol workforce published.
Every local authority across England to be allocated additional funding to help combat drug and alcohol misuse.
Minister for Crime, Policing and Fire promotes the UK’s balanced approach towards tackling drug use, with a focus on the challenge of synthetic opioids.
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