5-410: Dangerous Drugs Act may refer to: Dangerous Drugs Act 1920 ( 10 & 11 Geo. 5 . c. 46), a United Kingdom law Dangerous Drugs Act 1925 ( 15 & 16 Geo. 5 . c. 74), a United Kingdom law Dangerous Drugs Act 1951 ( 14 & 15 Geo. 6 . c. 48), a United Kingdom law Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 , a Malaysian law Dangerous Drugs Act 1965 (c. 15),
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15-473: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Dangerous Drugs Act 1920 The Dangerous Drugs Act 1920 ( 10 & 11 Geo. 5 . c. 46) is an UK act of Parliament which changed drug addiction , which up to then was treated within the medical profession as a disease, into a penal offence. The former was the view held by the then Assistant Under Secretary of State , Malcolm Delevingne . The Home Office
20-580: The Ministry of Health , as a result of this Act, produced a series of memoranda for doctors and dentists to explain the requirements of the Act. These were known as DD 101's (Memoranda as to the Duties of Doctors and Dentists). These were distributed to doctors, although the memorandi never had any statutory power. One particular memorandum, in 1938, added, for the first time, that maintenance of addicts if only for
25-650: Was charged with implementing the act. In January 1921 the Home Secretary gave 40 days' notice of his intention to issue controls over: The act also said that the export, import, sale, distribution or possession of barbiturates , had to be licensed or authorised by the Home Secretary. This proviso also applied to dilutions of cocaine and morphine, as defined in the lower limits set by the Hague Convention. The Home Office, in consultation with
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