Asked by: Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of people who had an addiction to a prescription drug in each of the last five years.
Answered by Will Quince
The information requested is not held. There are primary care codes (SNOMED CT) that can be used by primary care teams to record the physical and mental symptoms associated with dependence and withdrawal from prescribed drugs, although there are challenges in linking symptom and diagnostic data with prescribed medicines use.
However, in March 2023, NHS England published ‘Optimising personalised care for adults prescribed medicines associated with dependence or withdrawal symptoms: framework for action’. The framework sets out the scale of and change to prescribing of five medicines associated with dependence over time. Other sources of data such as Openprescribing also enable variation and comparisons in prescribing to be reviewed at different system levels, such as integrated care board, primary care network or practice level.
Jul. 16 2024
Source Page: Freedom of Information responses from the MHRA: 22 January 2024Found: The patient ’s medical history included alcohol abuse, alcoholic cirrhosis and pneumonia, alcohol dependence
Sep. 04 2024
Source Page: National Mission on Drugs Annual ReportFound: provision and how services are governed and funded 26 March 2024New estimated prevalence of opioid dependence
Mar. 27 2024
Source Page: ACMD advice on acyl piperazine opioids, including 2-methyl-AP-237Found: increase in th e appearance of new synthetic opioids, such as the acyl piperazines, in the UK illicit drug
Found: • Professor Roger Pertwee – The University of Aberdeen • Rayyan Zahar – Imperial College London & Drug
Oct. 18 2010
Source Page: List showing the prison and probation services to be covered by the Specification, Benchmarking and Costing programme. 4 p.Found: The aim is rehabilitation through addressing dependence on alcohol PROCESSING & RESOLUTION OF PRISONER
May. 30 2024
Source Page: FOI responses published by MOD: week commencing 27 May 2024Found: It becomes a clinical matter when illness, most particularly drug dependence, has occurred.
Mentions:
1: Earl of Sandwich (CB - Excepted Hereditary) I therefore declare my interest as a founder member of the Prescribed Drug Dependence—PDD—All-Party Parliamentary - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) I can assure him that it will remain available in healthcare as a Schedule 5 drug, and that can also - Speech Link
Nov. 20 2008
Source Page: Road safety compliance consultation paper. 170 p.Found: A change in the prescribed limit would be a significant change of strategy.
Dec. 13 2023
Source Page: Class 4 Medicines Defect Information: Atnahs Pharma UK Limited, Clobazam Atnahs 5mg/5ml and 10mg/5ml Oral Suspension, EL(23)A/43Found: This medicine has been prescribed for you only. Do not pass it on to others.