Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Government plans to introduce a national helpline for sufferers of prescribed drug dependence.

Anyone who is concerned that they may be dependent on medicines which have been prescribed to them, can get advice from their general practitioner, a community pharmacist, the 111 helpline or the on-line NHS Choices service:

http://www.nhs.uk/pages/home.aspx

In addition, the Government’s drugs information service, Talk to FRANK, also provides advice on how to access specialist drug treatment services, including services which help people who have a dependence on a medicine prescribed to them.