Abstract
The initial purposes of regulation of medicines in England, and latterly in the United Kingdom, were principally to raise government revenue, to discourage murder by poisoning and to regulate the activities of pharmacists. It was only much later that regulators sought to ensure that medicines were of good quality, reasonably safe, and at least somewhat effective, and to curtail misuse of drugs. Here we survey the history of the regulation of medicines and poisons in England from the perspective of clinicians with an interest in therapeutics.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology |
| Early online date | 17 Aug 2022 |
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| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 17 Aug 2022 |
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© 2022 The Authors. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Pharmacological Society.UN SDGs
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Keywords
- England
- United Kingdom
- drug industry
- drug legislation
- illicit drugs
- prescription drugs
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