We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
You must get permission to export certain drugs and medicines.
This guide is about infections that occur in people who inject drugs (PWID).
This study ia part of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative
Foresight project looking at how future scientific advances may affect our understanding of addiction and drug use.
Information for patients, healthcare professionals and developers of new medicines
Fifteen additional synthetic opioids are now under the strictest controls to prevent drug related deaths and ensure anyone caught supplying them faces tough penalties.
Controlled drugs and precursor chemicals licensing fees information for individuals and companies.
Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in the UK.
Information on carrying medicine containing controlled drugs for individual travellers entering or leaving the UK.
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs makes recommendations to government on the control of dangerous or otherwise harmful drugs, including classification and scheduling under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and its regulations. ACMD is an advisory non-departmental...
Guidance for industry on flexible approaches we are taking on good distribution practices.
How we engage and involve patients and the public in our regulatory decision-making.
The T28 exemption allows pharmacies and similar places to denature controlled drugs to comply with Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.
As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. We’ll send you a link to a feedback form. It will take only 2 minutes to fill in. Don’t worry we won’t send you spam or share your email address with anyone.