Science news articles about 'advisory council on the misuse of drugs'

  • Take classification decisions out of politicians' hands, say drug advisers

    ... 1997 has decided interest rate levels. Under the proposals discussed today by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, a "classification committee" of scientists, social scientists and experts in ...
  • Government clashes again with its own drug advisers about downgrading ecstasy

    ... class B drug, in a report due to go before ministers at the end of the month. The advisory council on the misuse of drugs (ACMD) is expected to urge the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, to remove ecstasy ...
  • Drugs council to recommend downgrading of ecstasy

    ... drug advisory body is expected today to recommend moving ecstasy from class A to class B.The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs will publish its long-awaited investigation into ...
  • Government watchdog considers ban on IQ booster drugs

    ... means that such drugs are much more readily available, the Home Office has asked the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs to see how this "rapidly evolving field" should be regulated. Just before ...
  • Drug experts to urge ban on 'herbal high'

    ... rapidly through a network of online sites and backstreet "head shops". The government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) is to warn that Spice Gold, which is advertised as a herbal high ...
  • Prof Nutt's dangerous drug list

    ... dangerous drugsProfessor David Nutt was last week forced to resign from his role as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. Research by Nutt and his colleagues, published ...
  • Three more government drug advisers resign

    ... resign over the home secretary's sacking of Professor David Nutt as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD).The three all resigned after a face-to-face meeting with Alan ...
  • Mum doesn't know best

    ... reclassified last year, from a class C drug to class B, and what's the point in making ... why ministers commission reports from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, only to ignore them. Among ...
  • Cocaine study that got up the nose of the US

    ... best way to deal with cocaine. You may wonder why they're bothering. When the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs looked at the evidence on the reclassification of cannabis it was ignored. When ...
  • Government to ban 'legal highs'

    ... Council on the Misuse of Drugs Three drugs that produce so-called "legal highs" are to be banned ... follow advice from government group the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, to outlaw GBL, a legal ...

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