{"id":71622,"date":"2016-06-24T09:43:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T09:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=bfc9019ec58a712ec33f05228c0ad156"},"modified":"2016-06-24T09:43:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T09:43:27","slug":"news-story-advisory-council-on-the-misuse-of-drugs-recruiting-new-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71622","title":{"rendered":"News story: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs recruiting new chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs\">ACMD<\/abbr> has a statutory duty to keep drug misuse in the United Kingdom under review and give expert advice on how to prevent it.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last 12 months, it has published high-profile reports on the use of alkyl nitrites (poppers), as well as providing advice on definitions for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/psychoactive-substances-bill-2015\">Psychoactive Substances Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the 3 year appointment, the chair will be responsible for setting the strategic direction of the council and overseeing the development of independent and expert advice to government.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates will need scientific authority and knowledge and be able work confidently with ministers, senior government officials, the scientific community, public health practitioners and law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>This appointment will be for a period of 3 years.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/publicappointments.cabinetoffice.gov.uk\/appointment\/chair-advisory-council-misuse-drugs\/\">Further information and details of how to apply<\/a> are available.<\/p>\n<p>The closing date for applications is 12:00 on Monday 4 July 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) is recruiting a new chairperson to advise the government on issues relating to drug misuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}