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Safety leaflet on opioid medicines to help patients and their families reduce the risks of harm.
Fifteen additional synthetic opioids are now under the strictest controls to prevent drug related deaths and ensure anyone caught supplying them faces tough penalties.
Foresight project looking at how future scientific advances may affect our understanding of addiction and drug use.
New 10-year plan to expand and improve the drug and alcohol workforce published.
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill will deliver on the Prime Minister's commitment to create a smokefree generation, saving thousands of lives and billions for the NHS.
People are urged to seek advice from healthcare professionals if they feel they have become dependent on or addicted to codeine linctus.
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.
The MHRA has reminded healthcare professionals prescribing aripiprazole to be alert to the known risk of patients developing addictive gambling, following a rise in the number of reports received in 2023
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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