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The penalties if you are caught taking or dealing drugs - drug classification, fines and prison sentences
Over two million doses of illegally traded medicines valued at almost £5m seized so far this year.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), working with law enforcement partners, seized more than 15.5 million doses of illegally traded medicines with a street value of more than £30 million during 2023.
Get help to classify pharmaceutical products used to treat or prevent diseases or ailments (in humans or animals), including comparators used in clinical trials and placebos.
List of controlled goods that follow the normal import declaration rules if HMRC apply continuity plans due to system issues.
How the MHRA makes decisions on when a product is a medical device (borderline products), and which risk class should apply to a medical device.
Explains changes to drug driving law and the guidance available for healthcare professionals and users of prescription medicine.
Pharmacy, prescription-only (POM), and general sale list (GSL) medicines: apply to move your medicine to a different classification.
Safety leaflet on opioid medicines to help patients and their families reduce the risks of harm.
Export controls on goods that can be used for torture or capital punishment.
Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in the UK.
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
Guide to licensing procedure and other restrictions for export of controlled dual-use items, software and technology, goods for torture and radioactive sources.
Information on carrying medicine containing controlled drugs for individual travellers entering or leaving the UK.
Work out the VAT liability of goods and services supplied by health and care institutions and providers of non residential care to children.
How to get scientific advice about your licence application from MHRA, including: submitting a request, your meeting with MHRA, fees.
You must get permission to export certain drugs and medicines.
How the MHRA makes decisions on what is a medicinal product (borderline products).
How to apply for a clinical trial including eligibility, phases, model IMPDs, costs and how to make changes to your application.
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