Substance abuse

A 27-year-old man has been jailed for 12 months for cultivating cannabis plants in a former Lloydspharmacy in Pembroke with an estimated street value of up to £500,000.

Pharmacies in Devon are taking part in a new pilot service that aims to reduce the number of drug-related deaths in the county and trains staff to recognise and respond to the “symptoms of opioid overdose”.

The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has found that the fitness to practise (FtP) of a pharmacist who “crashed” her company Citroen Berlingo van after drinking “six large drinks of her husband’s home brew” is “no longer impaired”.

A 27-year-old man has pleaded guilty of producing cannabis after nearly 600 plants were found at an old pharmacy building in Pembroke last week, local police have revealed.

A pharmacy in Mexico owned by a leading Sinaloa cartel family is facing sanctions, according to the US government.

A “brazen” pharmacy technician has been suspended after telling his workplace that he was late to work because he had “used a line of cocaine”. 

A “high-strength veterinary sedative” and 21 other “dangerous” drugs will be banned by the government, it has announced.   

There are currently no plans to employ pharmacists at the UK’s first legal supervised healthcare setting, where people “can inject drugs obtained elsewhere”, C+D has learned. 

Two men have been jailed over violent crimes – one for a serious assault on a woman that left witnesses “barricaded” in a nearby pharmacy and another for a series of knifepoint opioid robberies at pharmacies. 

The pharmacy negotiator has warned that one ADHD drug is in short supply, while some period delay and opioid dependency drugs will remain “out of stock” into the autumn.