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Lords Chamber
NHS: Medical Competence and Skill - Wed 07 Jan 2015
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Parekh (LAB - Life peer) They currently have no means of knowing how the patient responded to the treatment that they prescribed - Speech Link
2: Countess of Mar (CB - Excepted Hereditary) not filtering down to doctors who deal with patients.Are the time constraints on appointments and the dependence - Speech Link
3: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) Can we use the new PPRS agreement on drug costs, for instance, as a way of incentivising the adoption - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
UK Drugs Policy - Thu 30 Oct 2014
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Wollaston (LDEM - Totnes) It simply not true to say that cannabis is not a drug of dependence—it is.For me, this is about the impact - Speech Link
2: Julian Huppert (LDEM - Cambridge) Whether they are legal or illegal, and whether they are prescribed or not prescribed, tobacco, alcohol - Speech Link
3: Eric Ollerenshaw (CON - Lancaster and Fleetwood) The prisoner need only act out the symptoms, and the drugs will then be prescribed, entirely legally. - Speech Link
4: Crispin Blunt (CON - Reigate) The prisoners queuing up to be prescribed their methadone were sallow, emaciated and plainly ill, and - Speech Link
5: Norman Baker (LDEM - Lewes) prisons; there is no point in denying that, and the Ministers are seeing what they can do to reduce dependence - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Assisted Dying Bill [HL] - Fri 18 Jul 2014
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Tebbit (CON - Life peer) Will there be doctors pre-signing the certificates prescribed by the Bill? - Speech Link
2: Lord Stirrup (CB - Life peer) The patient administers the drug; the doctor merely prescribes it. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (LAB - Life peer) I confess to an increasing emphasis in our society that independence is always good and dependence is - Speech Link
4: Lord Pearson of Rannoch (Non-affiliated - Life peer) I was having a two-hour operation, when the anaesthetic steadily failed although the paralysing drug - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Criminal Justice and Courts Bill - Mon 14 Jul 2014
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None from conditions such as insomnia, anxiety and pain that lead them to seek medicines that can lead to dependence - Speech Link
2: None Many of the drugs that I have described as causing problems are prescribed in prison, so of course will - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) found by the mandatory drug testing programme across the prison estate. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Serious Crime Bill [HL] - Tue 08 Jul 2014
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Howarth of Newport (LAB - Life peer) past-month drug use among the general population—which are seen as the best indicators of evolving drug - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Basildon (LAB - Life peer) That seems to be a more holistic approach to tackling the drug culture and drug abuse. - Speech Link
3: Lord Taylor of Holbeach (CON - Life peer) with community drug recovery services on release; increasing the number of drug-free environments and - Speech Link
4: Baroness Meacher (CB - Life peer) dependence problems. - Speech Link
5: Lord Howarth of Newport (LAB - Life peer) any requirement in Clause 47 that the young person should agree to a course of action which would be prescribed - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Wed 04 Jun 2014
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: John Redwood (CON - Wokingham) respect, this House needs again to say that there are limits to European Union power, which will be prescribed - Speech Link
2: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) In my constituency and many others up and down the country, GPs have for many years prescribed fitness - Speech Link
3: Hugh Bayley (LAB - York Central) We certainly need to reduce our dependence on Russian exports. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill - Wed 09 Apr 2014
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) as the benefit from giving up smoking, leading some researchers to suggest that, if marriage were a drug - Speech Link
2: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) poverty that blights parts of Britain characterised by family breakdown, educational failure, economic dependence - Speech Link
3: David Burrowes (CON - Enfield, Southgate) Leading research has stated:“If marriage were a drug it would be hailed as a miracle cure.”Why are the - Speech Link
4: Lindsay Hoyle (Speaker - Chorley) section at any time, give written notice of that fact to the Commissioners not later than the end of the prescribed - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Drug Driving (Assessment of Drug Misuse) Bill - Fri 18 Oct 2013
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Peter Bottomley (CON - Worthing West) In cautioning people about using drugs, will he include the fact that some legal drugs and prescribed - Speech Link
2: Lord Evans of Rainow (CON - Life peer) The purpose of the assessment is to assess a person’s dependence on drugs or propensity to misuse drugs - Speech Link
3: David Hanson (LAB - Delyn) a specific class A drug to be required to attend up to two assessments with drug workers. - Speech Link
4: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) to be assessed by a qualified drug worker for drug dependency or drug misuse, so that they can access - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Drugs - Thu 17 Oct 2013
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Mancroft (CON - Excepted Hereditary) We introduced something called the British system, whereby addicts were prescribed heroin every single - Speech Link
2: Lord Taverne (LDEM - Life peer) Several noble Lords have referred to the dangers of addiction to prescribed drugs. - Speech Link
3: Lord Taylor of Holbeach (CON - Life peer) That is why we are supporting individuals in recovering from dependence. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health: Prescription Drugs - Thu 11 Jul 2013
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Earl of Sandwich (CB - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, prescribed medicines can be every bit as dangerous as hard drugs, and the length of withdrawal - Speech Link
2: Baroness Corston (LAB - Life peer) campaigning in this area, whose mission statement is:“To lessen the harm caused by benzodiazepine and z drug - Speech Link
3: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) are now, as she is aware, responsible for commissioning services to support people to recover from dependence - Speech Link
4: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) Government consider adding a box to the yellow card, which has been successful in reporting adverse drug - Speech Link