PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Antidepressants: Alcoholism (8 September 2022)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the medical effect of prescribing (a) citalopram and (b) other antidepressants to people with alcoholism.

Asked by:
Lee Anderson (Reform UK)

Answer

No specific assessment has been made. General practitioners or other responsible clinicians work with patients to decide the clinically appropriate course of treatment for individuals.


Answered by:
Dr Caroline Johnson (Conservative)
22 September 2022

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