Catalogue description Department of Health: Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs: Registered Files

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Details of JA 632
Reference: JA 632
Title: Department of Health: Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs: Registered Files
Description:

This series contains files regarding the Drugs Misuse Prevention Campaign, the Working Group on Implications of AIDS for the NHS, the Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), National AIDS Trust and proposals to set up a needle exchange scheme, monitoring and evaluation of policy on the treatment and rehabilitation of drug misusers

Date: 1979-2005
Arrangement:

This series is arrange in file reference order (within each transfer).

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: DAC and DRU file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Health, 1988-

Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988

Physical description: 325 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2020 Department of Health and Social Care

Selection and destruction information: DAC and DRU prefixes were noted as in use by File Office 16 at the Departmental Record Officer (DRO) Census on the 2 February 1990. DAC prefix was as closed at DRO Audit on the 7 July 1999. DRU prefix was transferred to File Office 176 in 2002 - no further information held.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) is an advisory non-departmental public body, which was established under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.

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