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Series
Department of Health: Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs: Registered Files
Catalogue reference: JA 632
What's it about?
JA 632
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...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- JA 632
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Health: Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1979-2008
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Description (What the record is about)
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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
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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This series is arrange in file reference order (within each transfer).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- DAC and DRU file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of Health, 1988-1988
- Department of Health and Social Care, 2018-2018
- Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 330 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2020 Department of Health and Social Care
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- National Health Service
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- 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.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16855822/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
43,575 records
Within the department: JA
Records created or inherited by the Department of Health (1988-)
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Department of Health: Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs: Registered Files
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