Home Secretary Theresa May and her statutory advisers on drug policy look to be heading for a showdown over government plans to deal with so-called "legal highs". Some members of The Advisory Council ...

Amid an ever increasing number of reported deaths linked to the drug mephedrone, the UK government yesterday announced plans to make the 'legal high' legal no longer. After receiving the ...

Poppers are so harmless and have such limited effects they do not actually fall under the Government’s ban on legal highs, the Government’s top statutory authority on the regulation of drugs has said.

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Tighter controls should be put on the painkiller tramadol according to the UK's official drugs advisers. The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) said it was concerned about an increase in ...

The Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery (ACMD) is located at St Vincent’s Fitzroy campus and, by 2030, is expected to make Australia a global biomedical engineering research leader. The CEO of the ...