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Information on data we collect from housing support and rough sleeping services funded by the drug and alcohol treatment and recovery improvement grant (DATRIG).
Summary The government gives funding to some local councils to provide…
A framework setting out actions to improve treatment for people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions through better integrated care.
Introduction Drug, alcohol and mental health problems are often…
The delivery framework sets out the actions needed to improve drug and…
This guide is about infections that occur in people who inject drugs (PWID).
Funding to local councils to help them improve their drug and alcohol treatment and recovery systems, from 2025 to 2026.
A guide to the legislation enabling drug services and others to supply take home naloxone without a prescription to save a life in an emergency.
Information for drug services to help them prevent, identify, treat and manage wounds in people who inject drugs.
Advice for people who inject drugs (PWID) on reducing the risk of wound botulism.
Guidance on supporting lived experience initiatives and recovery support services to help people start and sustain recovery from problem drug and alcohol use.
The most commonly encountered drugs currently controlled under the misuse of drugs legislation.
A toolkit to help local areas carry out a self-assessment to improve the residential drug and alcohol treatment that they commission.
Recommendations for prescribing methadone and buprenorphine to people in treatment for opioid dependence in England.
Information about the personal data we collect for the National Postmortem Toxicology Database from coroners' postmortem toxicology tests.
Guidance for local partnerships on how to review adult drug and alcohol related deaths and near-fatal overdoses to prevent future deaths.
Incident planning for potent synthetic opioids arriving into the illicit drug market.
Information for people in drug and alcohol treatment about sharing their information with the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System.
Guidance and advice for community pharmacies in England providing services to people who use drugs and alcohol.
Information about a new funding grant to local councils to help them improve housing support for people in drug and alcohol treatment and recovery.
Information about drug strategy funding to local authorities to help them improve their drug and alcohol treatment and recovery systems.
From 8 November 2023 Nitrous Oxide is controlled as a Class C drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and placed in Schedule 5 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.
This guidance is to help retailers understand the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016, which comes into effect on 26 May 2016.
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