Information between 6th February 2024 - 6th April 2024
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Access to Migraine Treatment
28 speeches (13,659 words) Wednesday 20th March 2024 - Westminster Hall Department of Health and Social Care Mentions: 1: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) It is still classed as a schedule 1 drug, like crack cocaine or heroin, so the blocks to simply researching - Link to Speech |
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Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
104 speeches (41,496 words) 2nd reading Tuesday 20th February 2024 - Lords Chamber Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) will cite the example of naloxone, which is the only drug available for bringing people round after a heroin - Link to Speech |
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Deportation of Foreign National Offenders
26 speeches (9,816 words) Wednesday 7th February 2024 - Westminster Hall Home Office Mentions: 1: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) undercurrent which permeates all immigration law”.Among those who escaped deportation that day was heroin - Link to Speech |
| Select Committee Documents |
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Friday 9th February 2024
Written Evidence - Release CJB0009 - Criminal Justice Bill 2023 Human Rights (Joint Committee) Found: from specified drugs under Schedule 2, Class A of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (‘MoDA’), namely heroin |
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Tuesday 6th February 2024
Correspondence - Correspondence from Sir Matthew Rycroft KCMG CBE, Permanent Secretary, Home Office, re Government’s work to reduce the harm from illegal drugs, dated 29 January 2024 Public Accounts Committee Found: I can clarify that the current testing devices used by policing are able to identify cocaine and heroin |
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Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Home Office Source Page: Nearly 100,000 drug tests carried out to tackle root causes of drug driven crime Document: Nearly 100,000 drug tests carried out to tackle root causes of drug driven crime (webpage) Found: cent of positive tests were for both cocaine and opiates whilst 4% tested positive for opiates such as heroin |
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Wednesday 20th March 2024
Home Office Source Page: More synthetic opioids banned to protect communities Document: More synthetic opioids banned to protect communities (webpage) Found: Crime and Policing Minister Chris Philp said: Synthetic opioids are significantly more toxic than heroin |
| Department Publications - Statistics |
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Tuesday 19th March 2024
Ministry of Justice Source Page: Criminal Justice System statistics quarterly: June 2023 Document: (Excel) Found: Class A0921109211 - Production of or being concerned in production of a controlled drug - class A (heroin |
| Department Publications - Guidance |
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Monday 19th February 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Source Page: Protocol on the Accession of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership [MS No.2/2024] Document: Protocol on the Accession of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, Volume I of II (PDF) Found: of poppy straw; buprenorphine (INN), codeine, dihydrocodeine (INN), ethylmorphine, etorphine (INN), heroin |
| Non-Departmental Publications - Statistics |
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Mar. 27 2024
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs Source Page: ACMD advice on acyl piperazine opioids, including 2-methyl-AP-237 Document: ACMD advice on acyl piperazine opioids, including 2-methyl-AP-237 (PDF) Statistics Found: As with traditi onal opioids such as heroin, these drugs activate µ opioid receptors , leading to dose |
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Mar. 27 2024
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs Source Page: ACMD advice on acyl piperazine opioids, including 2-methyl-AP-237 Document: Cover letter from ACMD with advice on acyl piperazine opioids, including 2-methyl-AP-237 (PDF) Statistics Found: There is a substantial risk that the recent Taliban ban on growing opium poppy for heroin production |
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Feb. 16 2024
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs Source Page: Use and harms of xylazine, medetomidine and detomidine Document: Cover letter (PDF) Statistics Found: to increase and/or prolong the sedative effects of the fentanyl (which are shorter than those of heroin |
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Feb. 16 2024
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs Source Page: Use and harms of xylazine, medetomidine and detomidine Document: A review of the evidence on the use and harms of xylazine (PDF) Statistics Found: Xylazine is a psychoactive adulterant which can be added to heroin or illicitly manufactured fentanyl |
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Mar. 20 2024
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs Source Page: More synthetic opioids banned to protect communities Document: More synthetic opioids banned to protect communities (webpage) News and Communications Found: Crime and Policing Minister Chris Philp said: Synthetic opioids are significantly more toxic than heroin |
| Non-Departmental Publications - Transparency |
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Mar. 14 2024
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency Source Page: Freedom of Information responses from the MHRA - week commencing 29 May 2023 Document: FOI 23/351 - attachment 1 (PDF) Transparency Found: (e.g. pol ycythaemia, sic kle cell anemia, dysproteinemia) Drug abuse (i.e. cocaine, amphetamines, heroin |
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Mar. 14 2024
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency Source Page: Freedom of Information responses from the MHRA - week commencing 19 June 2023 Document: FOI 23/264 (PDF) Transparency Found: the fatal cases for which figures are provided i n response to question 2 and 3 involve d use of heroin |