Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Feb. 19 2024

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

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Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs

Feb. 16 2024

Source Page: Use and harms of xylazine, medetomidine and detomidine
Document: Cover letter (PDF)

Found: to increase and/or prolong the sedative effects of the fentanyl (which are shorter than those of heroin

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Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs

Feb. 16 2024

Source Page: Use and harms of xylazine, medetomidine and detomidine
Document: A review of the evidence on the use and harms of xylazine (PDF)

Found: Xylazine is a psychoactive adulterant which can be added to heroin or illicitly manufactured fentanyl

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Select Committee

Release

CJB0009 - Criminal Justice Bill 2023

Written Evidence Feb. 09 2024

Committee: 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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Westminster Hall
Deportation of Foreign National Offenders - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) undercurrent which permeates all immigration law”.Among those who escaped deportation that day was heroin - Speech Link

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Select Committee

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

Correspondence Feb. 06 2024

Committee: 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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Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Ministry of Justice

Jan. 31 2024

Source Page: International community urged to come together or face losing the global contest of ideas, Lord Chancellor to warn in landmark speech in Washington
Document: https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/251117.pdf (PDF)

Found: The majority of the Baltimore City Drug Treatment Court study sample cited heroin as their primary drug

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Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Jan. 31 2024

Source Page: Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Systems-wide evaluation feasibility reports
Document: Test & Learn feasibility study (PDF)

Found: Naloxone is an opioid antagonist that can rapidly reverse the respiratory depression induced by heroin

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Public Bill Committees
Criminal Justice Bill (Fifteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 15th sitting - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham, Yardley) Well, there were kilos of cocaine and heroin left in her property, and she was absolutely convinced—nothing - Speech Link

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