Drug misuse and dependency

Services

Drugs Test 1 (DT1) form

Form for the testing of specified class A drugs on persons ages 18 or over.

Controlled drugs list
- Guidance
- 1 April 2025
- Home Office
Supplying take home naloxone without a prescription
- Detailed guide
- 12 September 2025
- Department of Health and Social Care
Drug misuse and dependence: UK guidelines on clinical management
- Guidance
- 15 December 2017
- Department of Health and Social Care
ASSIST-Lite screening tool: how to use
- Guidance
- 7 April 2021
- Public Health England
Co-occurring mental health and substance use: delivery framework
- Guidance
- 10 December 2025
- Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England

ACMD work programme 2026
- 11 March 2026
- Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
- Correspondence
New technology and medicines to combat drug and alcohol addiction
- 19 February 2026
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Press release
New members appointed to ACMD
- 3 February 2026
- Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
- News story
ACMD announces decision on the classification of ketamine
- 28 January 2026
- Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
- News story
Lives to be saved by boosting access to drug overdose medication
- 29 December 2025
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Press release

Drug use in ethnic minority groups: a review and recommendations
- 13 May 2026
- Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
- Research
Semi-synthetic cannabinoids related to tetrahydro-cannabinol and cannabidiol
- 11 May 2026
- Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
- Independent report
Prison leavers in substance misuse treatment: 4-week outcomes
- 23 April 2026
- Office for Health Improvement and Disparities and Ministry of Justice
- Official statistics
Ethylbromazolam: review of the evidence on its use and harms
- 14 April 2026
- Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
- Research
Shooting Up: infections among people who inject drugs in the UK
- 19 February 2026
- UK Health Security Agency
- Research

Expanding access to naloxone: supply and emergency use
- 29 December 2025
- Department of Health and Social Care, The Scottish Government, Welsh Government, and Department of Health (Northern Ireland)
- Closed consultation
- Date closed 09 March 2026
Drug use in LGBT+ communities and chemsex
- 5 December 2025
- Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
- Closed call for evidence
Cannabis-based products for medicinal use
- 17 September 2025
- Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
- Closed call for evidence
The misuse and harms of gabapentin and pregabalin
- 22 August 2025
- Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
- Closed call for evidence
Ketamine harms assessment
- 5 August 2025
- Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
- Closed call for evidence

ACMD annual report 2023 to 2025
- 8 May 2026
- Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
- Corporate report
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs member biographies
- 2 February 2026
- Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
- Transparency
Drug Testing on Arrest (DToA): programme data
- 20 November 2025
- Home Office
- Transparency
Standard Operating Procedure for using evidence in ACMD reports
- 3 January 2025
- Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
- Corporate report
ACMD annual report 2020 to 2022
- 20 December 2024
- Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
- Corporate report