PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Drugs: Misuse (11 June 2015)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the number of people in England involuntarily addicted to prescribed drugs in each year since 2010.

Asked by:
Debbie Abrahams (Labour)

Answer

Information is not held centrally on the number of people in England who are involuntarily addicted to prescribed drugs.

Information is not held centrally on the number of people prescribed particular medicines or the duration of treatment.


Answered by:
Jane Ellison (Conservative)
19 June 2015

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