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Safety leaflet on opioid medicines to help patients and their families reduce the risks of harm.
Guidance for people with symptoms of a respiratory infection including COVID-19, or a positive test result for COVID-19.
Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners.
Minister for Crime, Policing and Fire promotes the UK’s balanced approach towards tackling drug use, with a focus on the challenge of synthetic opioids.
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs makes recommendations to government on the control of dangerous or otherwise harmful drugs, including classification and scheduling under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and its regulations. ACMD is an advisory non-departmental...
Foresight project looking at how future scientific advances may affect our understanding of addiction and drug use.
Fifteen additional synthetic opioids are now under the strictest controls to prevent drug related deaths and ensure anyone caught supplying them faces tough penalties.
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