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Catalogue description Home Office: Dangerous Drugs (DDA Symbol Series) and Drugs Record Cases (DRC Symbol Series) Files
| Reference: | HO 319 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Home Office: Dangerous Drugs (DDA Symbol Series) and Drugs Record Cases (DRC Symbol Series) Files |
| Description: |
Files from the Home Office DDA (Dangerous Drugs) series and the DRC (Drugs Record Cases) series. They relate to Home Office functions and responsibilities with regard to dangerous drugs, as defined by the Dangerous Drugs Act 1951 and the Dangerous Drugs Regulations 1953. The DRC series consisted of case files on individual addicts: the three files included in this series contain minor policy arising out of the case. |
| Date: | 1950-2002 |
| Arrangement: |
The inclusion of a date preceding a file number (eg. DDA (1959) 2/14/8) or following the DDA symbol series heading (eg. DDA 67) indicates the year in which the file was supposed to have been created, but often it only indicates the year in which the first subfile was raised on a particular subject. |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | DDA and DRC Symbol file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Home Office, 1782- |
| Physical description: | 694 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1986 Home Office |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Home Office had wide-ranging responsibilities with regard to dangerous drugs, including: manufacture, supply, stocks, control and disposal of both new and existing drugs; import and export, illicit traffic and smuggling; drugs branch inspectors; liaison with police; use by hospitals, chemists, doctors, dentists, nursing homes, health centres, first aid and emergency; and all aspects of addiction. |
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