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Safety leaflet on opioid medicines to help patients and their families reduce the risks of harm.
Foresight project looking at how future scientific advances may affect our understanding of addiction and drug use.
People are urged to seek advice from healthcare professionals if they feel they have become dependent on or addicted to codeine linctus.
Dame Carol Black's independent review into the effects on employment outcomes of drug or alcohol addiction and obesity.
Manual for healthcare practitioners on building and carrying out an effective plan for recovery from substance addiction.
Guidance for healthcare and public health commissioners on planning treatment services for dependence on prescription and over-the-counter medicines.
Thousands of prisoners are getting clean thanks to a doubling of drug-free wings in jails as the government’s war on addiction steps up a gear.
Resource for commissioners, providers and clinicians to identify the essential functions of addiction specialist doctors in recovery oriented treatment.
The NHS is set to benefit as new levy will raise an estimated £100 million of new funding for research, prevention and treatment of gambling addiction.
Review of the outcomes of the Foresight 'Brain science, addiction and drugs' project in the year following its launch.
A Better Outcomes through Linked Data report linking community sentence treatment requirements (alcohol and drug rehabilitation) with treatment services data.
A new £3.7 million employment programme will see mentors who have beat drug or alcohol addiction placed in Jobcentres to help others with dependencies recover and get back into work.
This document details the government response to the Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee Report on Immersive and Addictive Technologies.
Research with claimants to inform Dame Carol Black's report 'Drug and alcohol addiction, and obesity: effects on employment outcomes'.
A call for evidence to inform an independent review into the effects on employment outcomes of drug or alcohol addiction and obesity.
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