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People are urged to seek advice from healthcare professionals if they feel they have become dependent on or addicted to codeine linctus.
Advice for healthcare professionals on the reclassification of codeine linctus to a prescription-only medicine (POM), following a public consultation.
Advice for drug treatment and recovery workers to help them to deliver safe and effective OST to service users.
Incident planning for potent synthetic opioids arriving into the illicit drug market.
Advice for local authorities on providing more naloxone to reduce overdose deaths from heroin and other opioids.
Information on carrying medicine containing controlled drugs for individual travellers entering or leaving the UK.
Stronger warnings about the risk of dependence and addiction to be added to the patient information leaflet and discussed with patients
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