Misuse of Drugs

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The Home Office is responsible for the statutory framework governing the wider misuse of drugs; the regulation of the licit trade in controlled drugs and chemicals; European and wider international liaison; and providing the secretariat to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.

• HOC 49/2003 – An amendment to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 – To permit the Prescribing of controlled drugs by nurses in restricted circumstances, and the Supply of controlled drugs in accordance with a Patient Group Direction - 2nd October 2003.
• HOC 35/2003 – Supply of Drug Injecting Paraphernalia (file size 40kb)
• HOC 39 – Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Modification) Order 2003 (SI 2003 No.1243) – Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2003 (SI 2003 No. 1432) (file size 303kb)
• Computer Generated Prescriptions, Registers and Requisitions for Controlled Drugs
  (consultation letter; responses invited by 22 August 2003) (file size 75kb)
• HOC 23/99: Misuse of drugs (amendment) regulations 1999. Misuse of drugs (safe custody) (amendment) regulations 1999.