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Foresight project looking at how future scientific advances may affect our understanding of addiction and drug use.
Resource for commissioners, providers and clinicians to identify the essential functions of addiction specialist doctors in recovery oriented treatment.
Updated product information and packaging will help patients better understand the risks of dependency, addiction, and withdrawal with these medicines.
A table of rehabilitation periods for the most common sentences and disposals, and example scenarios.
Stoke Heath’s family strategy outlines how we support prisoners in our care to develop meaningful and constructive relationships with their family or significant others.
The MHRA has reviewed the warnings regarding addiction, dependence, withdrawal, and tolerance for gabapentin, pregabalin, benzodiazepines, and z-drugs. The findings (detailed in the Public Assessment Report) were that it was necessary to strengthen these warnings in the product information and...
Find out how to get help if you or someone you know is a victim of domestic abuse.
Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in the UK.
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