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The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) Order: S.I. 2009/3209 2016: Psychoactive Substances Act 2016: 2016: The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Temporary Class Drug) Order 650: 2016: The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) Order 1109: 2016: The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Temporary Class Drug) (No. 2) Order 1126: 2017: The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 ...
Its terms of reference, [1] according to the Act, are as follows: . to keep under review the situation in the United Kingdom with respect to drugs which are being or appear to them likely to be misused and of which the misuse is having or appears to them capable of having harmful effects sufficient to constitute a social problem, and to give to any one or more of the Ministers, where either ...
These drugs are known in the UK as controlled drug, because this is the term by which the act itself refers to them.In more general terms, however, many of these drugs are also controlled by the Medicines Act 1968, there are many other drugs which are controlled by the Medicines Act but not by the Misuse of Drugs Act, and some other drugs (alcohol, for example) are controlled by other laws.
English: These Regulations revoke and re-enact, with amendments, the provisions of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1985, as amended. They provide certain exemptions from the provisions of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 which, subject to such regulations, prohibit the production, importation, exportation, possession and supply of controlled drugs, which are specified in Schedule 2 to that Act.
The Drug Interventions Programme is a key part of the United Kingdom's strategy for tackling drug abuse. [1] It aims to engage drug-misusing offenders involved in the Criminal Justice system in formal addiction treatment and other support, thereby reducing drug-related harm and reducing offending behaviour. [2] Introduced in 2003, it formed a ...
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An Act to make provision in connection with controlled drugs and for the making of orders to supplement anti-social behaviour orders in cases where behaviour is affected by drug misuse or other prescribed factors. Citation: 2005 c 17: Territorial extent
Deaths to drug misuse in Scotland from 1996 to 2021. Scotland has the worst drug-related/misuse mortality rate in Europe [6] and in the UK as a whole. [6] It is 3.5 times higher than England and Wales. [6] In 2021, a total of 1,330 people died from drug-misuse. [6] [7]