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

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

• Updated: 19 March 2021

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

• Updated: 26 January 2021

• Letter from Baroness Williams to ACMD (accessible version)

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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

The government’s response to the ACMD’s fentanyl report.

• Updated: 20 October 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

Letter from ACMD to ministers, providing advice on the administration rights of morphine by injection for therapeutic radiographer independent prescribers.

• Updated: 22 April 2020

Letter from the ACMD Barriers to Research working group to collect written evidence from researchers about barriers to legitimate research with controlled drugs.

• Updated: 9 April 2020

Letter from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) to the Home Secretary in response to the 6 January letter on GHB and GBL.

• Updated: 26 February 2020

Letter to the Home Office regarding the appropriate Schedule for the cannabis-based product for medicinal use, Epidyolex, under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.

• Updated: 29 January 2020

The UK government has set the date for its Glasgow summit on tackling drug misuse as 27 February 2020.

• Updated: 24 January 2020

This report advises government on the number and nature of known fentanyl analogues, risk factors, pharmacology, toxic effects and misuse and associated harms.

• Updated: 3 January 2020

Letter to the Home Secretary from the Chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, outlining our self-commissioned workstreams planned for 2020.

• Updated: 23 December 2019