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Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs

Type: Organization

Name: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

The ACMD in UK continue their fight against research chemicals

The officials from ACMD in the UK expressed their stand against research chemicals on the street in a press meeting. The spokesperson from the Office of ACMD also stated that they will take any possible initiatives to safeguard the society from the use ... [Published PRWeb - May 18 2013]

Entities: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, Chemical, United Kingdom, Illegal, Log

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Home Secretary is Ignoring Advice Over Legal Highs Including her Experts

Founder of the drugs charity, Angelus, Maryon StewartProf Iversen's warning followed reports from Home Affairs Committee, the All Party Committee on Drug Reform and UK Drug Policy Commission all of which include stark reminders of the need for urgent ... [Published ADVFN UK - May 16 2013]

Entities: AdvICE™, Drugs, United Kingdom Drug Policy Commission, Les Iversen

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

NHS

Thursday 16 May

The Guardian contains an article looking at how frontline staff should embrace a paperless NHS. The article cites recent figures released by the RCN which suggest that on average British nurses spend 17.3% of their time on paperwork and clerical tasks ... [Published Royal College of Nursing - May 16 2013]

Entities: NHS, Patient, Human Cloning

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 4 reports

Legal highs flooding UK pose immense overdose risk, warns drugs tsar

Legal highs warning – above: Spice, a herbal mixture that contains a synthesised chemical substance. Photograph: Jim Powell for the Guardian The government's chief drugs adviser has given his strongest warning yet on the impact of "legal highs" in Britain, ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 16 2013]

Entities: Overdose, Flooding, Drugs, United Kingdom

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Professor Nutt Is Still Fighting Against the UK's 'Moronic' Drugs Laws

Professor David Nutt in his office, near a mushroom sculpture that he seemed particularly attached to.Nothing illuminates the gaping chasm between political and public opinion quite like the war on drugs. With over half of British people saying that the ... [Published Vice UK - May 16 2013]

Entities: Drugs, David Nutt, Cannabis

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

A sensible drugs policy : Professor David Nutt

On Monday evening, British psychiatrist and neuropsychopharmacologist Professor David Nutt, former drugs advisor for the government and campaigner for a rational, scientific approach to legislation on drugs, gave an authoritative, engaging and informative ... [Published The Yorker - May 04 2013]

Entities: David Nutt, Drugs, Alcohol, Ecstasy, Lysergic Acid Diethylamide

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Sativex® Oromucosal Spray rescheduled in the UK

Bayer Healthcare has announced that the Home Office, after advice from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs' (ACMD), has rescheduled Sativex® Oromucosal Spray in the UK. Sativex®, the first cannabinoid medicine derived from whole plant extracts ... [Published Geriatric Medicine - May 02 2013]

Entities: Sativex, Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, Spasticity, United Kingdom

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Drug abuse shouldn’t be a crime, says Parliament group

Baroness Meacher co-wrote in a letter to The Times that it is 'illogical' for the Home Office to lead drug policy.Drug abuse should not be treated like a crime and control of drugs policy should be handed to the Department of Health, says a Parliamentary ... [Published Christian Institute - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Drugs, Drug Abuse, Crime, Parliamentary Group

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

ACMD meeting statement, Meeting 12, 15 March 2013

Home > About the TGA > Committees > > Advisory Committee on Medical Devices (ACMD) >Advisory Committee on Medical DevicesRole of the Advisory Committee on Medical Devices (ACMD) in the TGA's regulatory decision making processThe ACMD is ... [Published Australian Dept. of Health - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, Medical Devices, In Vitro Diagnostics, Relativity, Commodities

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

The Insider: The dear old days

THE DEAR OLD DAYSFascinating news from Statistics NZ: delving into their files, the number-crunchers have revealed that in 1949 - when they began tracking the cost of large home appliances in the consumers price index - a washing machine cost the equivalent ... [Published New Zealand Herald - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Insider, David Nutt, New Zealand

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

16th November issue

Off the scaleThe Prof Nutt row is obscuring the real issues.The row over sacking Professor David Nutt has become intensely personal, to the point where media commentary and the stampede to take sides have obscured the issues at the heart of the debate. ... [Published Drink and Drugs News - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: David Nutt, Drugs, Alcohol

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 16 2013 - 1 reports

Did cocaine cause the great financial crash?

Former banker backs claim that drug use led City of London workers to take crazy risksOne-Minute ReadLAST UPDATED AT 12:57 ON Tue 16 Apr 2013 FORGET arrogance, greed or idiocy – it was cocaine that caused the financial crash in 2008. That's the verdict ... [Published The First Post: Latest - Apr 16 2013]

Entities: Cocaine, Geraint Anderson, David Nutt, Drugs

Quotes

"Good governance in a demutualised stock exchange will depend on the good intensions and ethical backgrounds of the independent directors" Siddiqi said

Better governance a must to make demutualisation a success [Published Financial Express Bangladesh - May 18 2013]

"To me that is an appalling situation. Sooner or later we will get unexpected serious harms emerging from one or other of these compounds. We will then blame ourselves for letting them be sold without any safety precautions" warned Iversen

Legal highs flooding UK pose immense overdose risk, warns drugs tsar [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 16 2013]

...Sweden is unusual in making drug use itself a criminal offence in 1988 "in order to signal a powerful repudiation by the community of all dealings with drugs" . Drug testing is compulsory for those suspected of having consumed drugs

Home Office tour to study drug policies in 10 countries [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 13 2013]

...In May 2012 the Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) published a report on naloxone including the recommendation that: "Naloxone should be made more widely available to tackle the high numbers of fatal opioid overdoses in the UK."

Martindale Pharma announces UK launch of Prenoxad Injection for opioid overdose [Published News-Medical.Net - May 03 2013]

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Better governance a must to make demutualisatio... [Published Financial Express Bangladesh - May 18 2013]
RCNET Announce The rise of Ethylphenidate: A Ne... [Published Online PR News - May 18 2013]
The ACMD in UK continue their fight against res... [Published PRWeb - May 18 2013]
Home Secretary is Ignoring Advice Over Legal Hi... [Published ADVFN UK - May 16 2013]
Home Secretary is Ignoring Advice Over Legal Hi... [Published PR Newswire: Entertainment & Media - May 16 2013]
Thursday 16 May [Published Royal College of Nursing - May 16 2013]
Legal highs flooding UK pose immense overdose r... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 16 2013]
Legal highs flooding UK pose immense overdose r... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 16 2013]
Drugs tsar warns of 'immense risks' as legal hi... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 16 2013]
Drugs tsar warns of 'immense risks' as 200 lega... [Published The Independent - May 16 2013]
Professor Nutt Is Still Fighting Against the UK... [Published Vice UK - May 16 2013]
News feature: The magical mystery cure [Published Therapy Today - May 13 2013]
Home Office tour to study drug policies in 10 c... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 13 2013]
Cardiff Council blames misunderstanding for blo... [Published Wales Online - May 09 2013]
Martindale Pharma launches Prenoxad injection i... [Published PharmaBiz - May 06 2013]
A sensible drugs policy : Professor David Nutt [Published The Yorker - May 04 2013]
Martindale Pharma Launches Prenoxad Injection f... [Published Pharma-Mag - May 03 2013]
Martindale Pharma announces UK launch of Prenox... [Published News-Medical.Net - May 03 2013]
Sativex® Oromucosal Spray rescheduled in the UK [Published Geriatric Medicine - May 02 2013]
Drug abuse shouldn’t be a crime, says Parliamen... [Published Christian Institute - Apr 29 2013]
ACMD meeting statement, Meeting 12, 15 March 2013 [Published Australian Dept. of Health - Apr 29 2013]
The Twilight Zone [Published Pharma Field - Apr 25 2013]
Petty criminal Ayanle Adan addicted to chewing ... [Published Mail Online UK - Apr 23 2013]
The Insider: The dear old days [Published New Zealand Herald - Apr 18 2013]
16th November issue [Published Drink and Drugs News - Apr 17 2013]
Magic Mushrooms: The Key to Treating Severe Dep... [Published Care2 - Apr 16 2013]
Did cocaine cause the great financial crash? [Published The First Post: Latest - Apr 16 2013]
Magic mushrooms could treat depression, but cli... [Published Natural News - Apr 16 2013]
Cocaine caused the credit crunch as bankers dem... [Published London Net - Apr 15 2013]
Will civil service reform improve Whitehall's u... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 10 2013]

Blogs

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Martindale Pharma Launches Prenoxad Injection f... [Published Pharma-Mag - May 03 2013] Martindale Pharma, a leader in the manufacture and supply of specialty pharmaceuticals, is pleased to announce the UK launch of Prenoxad Injection, the world’s first licensed emergency treatment for acute opioid related overdose for use at home or other ...
IH News Global Health Weekly News Round-Up [Published IH - BLOG - Jan 25 2013] Politics and Policies: Egypt will carry out vaccination campaign in parts of Cairo after polio virus was found in sewer.The United Kingdom’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) has rejected calls to ban the herbal stimulant, khat.Minister ...
Decriminalise drugs – it would reduce the level... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Jan 14 2013] The all-party parliamentary group on drug policy reform wants legal highs to be regulated and drugs classified on real evidence Current drug policies present significant risks to Britain's young people. Traditional drugs are in the hands of criminal ...
Britain has not simply fallen out of love with ... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Dec 18 2012] The government has based its refusal to set up a royal commission on the shaky premise that drug use is falling "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" summed up the response from the Home Office, and later David Cameron, to the publication of the home affairs ...

Press Releases

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Home Secretary is Ignoring Advice Over Legal Hi... [Published PR Newswire: Entertainment & Media - May 16 2013]