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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.
Manual for healthcare practitioners on building and carrying out an effective plan for recovery from substance addiction.
People are urged to seek advice from healthcare professionals if they feel they have become dependent on or addicted to codeine linctus.
The MHRA has reminded healthcare professionals prescribing aripiprazole to be alert to the known risk of patients developing addictive gambling, following a rise in the number of reports received in 2023
This document details the government response to the Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee Report on Immersive and Addictive Technologies.
Current and former UK chief medical officers (CMOs) and current deputy CMOs write for The Times on the introduction of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.
Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners.
Research with claimants to inform Dame Carol Black's report 'Drug and alcohol addiction, and obesity: effects on employment outcomes'.
Dame Carol Black's independent review into the effects on employment outcomes of drug or alcohol addiction and obesity.
Information relating to the Tobacco and Vapes Bill which was introduced in the House of Commons on 20 March 2024.
PHE NW Education, Training and Employment (ETE) forum advise on considerations for ETE support for clients in drug and alcohol treatment.
Review of the outcomes of the Foresight 'Brain science, addiction and drugs' project in the year following its launch.
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