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The Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department [1] (C&ED; commonly known as the Hong Kong Customs) is the customs service of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The agency was established to protect Hong Kong from smuggling, ensure the collection of duties on taxable goods, detect and prevent drug trafficking and abuse, safeguard ...
Under the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance (Chapter 138), the Department of Health's Drug Office is responsible for drug registration in Hong Kong. All drugs sold in Hong Kong are required to be registered with a number, which consists of the prefix 'HK' followed by five digits (e.g. HK-05628). [7]
The Monthly Index of Medical Specialities or MIMS is a pharmaceutical prescribing reference guide published in the United Kingdom since 1959 by Haymarket Media Group.MIMS is also published internationally by various organisations, including in Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
A drug label retrieved from a random clinic in Hong Kong. Over-prominence of the logo of clinics may be susceptible to the poor interpretation of drugs by patients. An effective drug label should demonstrate efficacy and safety. Imperfect drug label information or design may lead to misinterpretation and hence medication errors.
Drug abusers often abuse high ... diazepam is the benzodiazepine most frequently encountered by customs and law enforcement. ... In Hong Kong abuse of prescription ...
Headaches are a common side effect of ED medications such as sildenafil (the active ingredient in Viagra), tadalafil (Cialis) and vardenafil (Levitra), with about 25 percent of men prescribed ...
It is prescribed with a nonrenewable prescription (a new doctor visit every time), available only in 7 or 14-pill packaging for one or two weeks. [84] One brand was withdrawn from the market in 2013 due to rampant abuse. [88] In Hong Kong, temazepam is regulated under Schedule 1 of Hong Kong's Chapter 134 Dangerous Drugs Ordinance.
Draft laws, regulations and rules and policy plans on the administration and supervision of food (including food additives and health food, the same below) safety, drugs (including traditional Chinese medicines and ethno-medicines, the same below), medical devices and cosmetics; formulate normative documents, and facilitate the establishment and implementation of the food safety responsibility ...