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Speech delivered by Deputy High Commissioner to Ghana, Keith McMahon.

• Updated: 27 June 2022

Advice on the appropriate classification and scheduling of Brorphine and Metonitazene under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and associated regulations.

• Updated: 15 June 2022

The government's ten year Drug Strategy aims to tackle drugs and prevent crime, backed by the largest ever increase in funding for drug treatment.

• Updated: 6 December 2021

Public Health England (PHE) has issued a warning of a sharp rise in the number of overdoses linked to people using drugs in several areas across England.

• Updated: 17 August 2021

Consultation launched to make lifesaving medicine which can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose available to more frontline workers.

• Updated: 3 August 2021

The government has appointed Dame Carol Black as an independent adviser on drug misuse and will publish an ambitious new drug strategy later this year.

• Updated: 27 July 2021

The new unit aims to end illegal drug-related illness and deaths.

• Updated: 8 July 2021

Service, led by PHE London, was set up in partnership with the Greater London Authority, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, borough councils and the City of London Corporation.

• Updated: 9 June 2021

Barriers to Research working group calls for written evidence about barriers to legitimate research for controlled drugs, excluding synthetic cannabinoids.

• Updated: 22 April 2021

The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) has reappointed 4 experts in their fields to serve their third term on the council.

• Updated: 19 March 2021

The government’s response to the ACMD advice on DNP.

• Updated: 26 January 2021

Letter from Kit Malthouse MP to Professor Owen Bowden-Jones, Chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD).

• Updated: 25 January 2021

Rough sleepers across England will receive extra support to help them recover from drug and alcohol misuse.

• Updated: 14 December 2020

A review of the evidence of use and harms of novel benzodiazepines.

• Updated: 8 September 2020

Crime and Policing Minister Kit Malthouse has today announced that 3 benzodiazepines will be made Class C drugs.

• Updated: 8 September 2020

The Home Secretary's commissioning letter to the chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) for the period 2020 to 2022.

• Updated: 12 August 2020

Three new members of the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) have been announced today.

• Updated: 3 August 2020

The second part of a major independent review by Professor Dame Carol Black into the misuse of illegal drugs in England has launched today.

• Updated: 2 July 2020

Forms for members of the public to provide written evidence on young people’s drug use and naloxone provision.

• Updated: 26 June 2020

This circular draws attention to the content of the Statutory Instrument (SI) 2020 No. 559 amending The Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.

• Updated: 24 June 2020