Category Archives: Controlled drugs

Monthly News Update August 2023

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Rapid Update 2 – October 2019: Public health assessment finds a quarter of adults in England prescribed medicines associated with dependence or withdrawal

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Rapid Update 1- June 2018: Opioids: interventions to reduce use in chronic non-cancer pain

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Rapid Update 2- December 2017: Gabapentin and opioids: Observational study finds increased risk of opioid-related death when used in combination

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NPC Archive Item: NPC Podcast – 25th September 2009

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. Steve Morris talks to Chris Harris, Controlled Drugs Policy lead at the Department for Health, and Gillian Arr-Jones, Chief Pharmacist at the Care Quality Commission (CQC), about the recent […]