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CONTROLLED DRUGS (CD)

Amendments to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations: guidance for pharmacists (2005)

Approved wording on instalment prescriptions to cover pharmacy closures



CD register entries for hydromorphone more

Changes to the arrangements for dealing with private Controlled Drug prescriptions

Changes to the arrangements for dealing with Controlled Drug requisitions — Part I

Change to the status of midazolam on 1 January 2008

Changes to Misuse of Drugs Regulations more

Clarification of the “Controlled Drugs in hospital” section of ‘Medicines, ethics and practice: a guide for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, issue 31




Date-expired Controlled Drugs stock more

Destruction of CDs returned by patients more

Destruction of out-of-date Controlled Drugs more

Destruction of schedule 1, 2, 3 and 4 part I Controlled Drugs



Extemporaneous preparation of methadone mixture more

Extended formulary nurse prescribers and Controlled Drugs



Further changes to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001



Handwriting exemptions for Controlled Drug prescribing more (updated 18 June 2005)



Instalment dispensing of buprenorphine more (February 2003)

Instalment dispensing more (April 2005) updated June 2006

Instalment dispensing of diazepam on FP10(MDA) more



Ketamine becomes a Class C Controlled Drug

Licence requirements for the prescribing of cocaine, diamorphine and dipipanone for addiction



Corrections to “Medicines, ethics and practice”, p26 and p30 concerning Controlled Drugs
• Operating department practitioners and ordering of Controlled Drugs
• The retention of veterinary Controlled Drug prescriptions


Methadone oral solution

Methamphetamine: link to cold remedies and reclassification

Missed doses or collections of methadone

(The) Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 more



New Home Office telephone number for confirming practitioners' CD status more

New powers for accountable officers and operating department practitioners following changes to Controlled Drugs legislation



Over-packaging of Controlled Drugs more



Patients may not legally extemporaneously compound a product that contains a Controlled Drug

Prescribing of Controlled Drugs by pharmacist and nurse independent prescribers more

Private Controlled Drugs prescriptions and other changes to the prescribing and dispensing of Controlled Drugs



Safe storage of methadone in the home more

Substitution of colourless and/or sugar-free methadone mixture more

Supervision of CDs within the pharmacy more

Supply of drug paraphernalia more

Supply of extemporaneously prepared products containing Schedule 5 Controlled Drugs more



Technical errors on Schedule 2 and 3 Controlled Drug prescriptions



Validity of CD prescriptions

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