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It's illegal to drive if you're unfit to do so because you're on legal or illegal drugs, or you have certain levels of drugs or medicine in your blood
Information on carrying medicine containing controlled drugs for individual travellers entering or leaving the UK.
An investigation by the Criminal Enforcement Unit (CEU) of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has led to charges being brought against five people from the Wolverhampton area for the illegal supply of prescription-only medicines and controlled drugs.
Explains changes to drug driving law and the guidance available for healthcare professionals and users of prescription medicine.
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.
Kieron Banks (34) was sentenced today at the Nightingale Court in Wolverhampton for the illegal possession and intent to supply prescription-only medication valued at over £2m following investigations by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
How to report suspected illegal activity and how we will deal with these reports.
Three men have been sentenced to a total of three years at Manchester Crown Court after pleading guilty to the illegal sale and supply online of prescription-only medicines and controlled Class B and Class C drugs with a street value...
The penalties if you are caught taking or dealing drugs - drug classification, fines and prison sentences
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
When entering the UK, you need to prove your medicine is prescribed to you if it contains a controlled drug - find out what proof you need to get.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) Criminal Enforcement Unit (CEU) seized hundreds of thousands of doses of suspected illegally traded medicines, including powerful prescription-only medicines, following coordinated raids at two residential and two business premises across North Manchester.
Over two million doses of illegally traded medicines valued at almost £5m seized so far this year.
If you've used illegal drugs or misused drugs you must tell DVLA - download the correct form to let them know
Legal requirement for the sale of veterinary medicines on the internet and the VMD Accredited Internet Retailer Scheme (AIRS).
Karina Filimonova and Andrejs Stolarovs were each sentenced at Southwark Crown Court to eight months in prison for the illegal possession and intent to supply unlicensed medicines, including prescription only medicines, valued at £1.6m following investigations by the Medicines and...
Fifteen additional synthetic opioids are now under the strictest controls to prevent drug related deaths and ensure anyone caught supplying them faces tough penalties.
Fake, potentially harmful Ozempic and Saxenda pens have been found in the UK: you should only access these medicines via a medical prescription.
As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
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