Monthly Archives: March 2011

Email from John Perrott to Matthew Fluck, Customer Service Centre, Department of Health (31 March 2011)

Dear Matthew Fluck, Thank you for your response. It will be apparent by the content of my letter that I am requesting an investigation into why the MHRA failed to regulate Ativan and why it received a licence and I have presented evidence … Continue reading

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Email from Matthew Fluck, Customer Service Centre, Department of Health to John Perrott (31 March 2011)

Dear Mr and Ms Perrott, Thank you for your email of 9 March to Anne Milton about Ativan.  I have been asked to reply. I hope you will understand that, due to the amount of correspondence she receives and her daily commitments, … Continue reading

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Email from Mary Heaton, Customer Service Centre, Department of Health to John Perrott (31 March 2011)

Dear Mr Perrott, Thank you for your further email of 24 February to Anne Milton about your correspondent Mr David Baldwin about his partner’s addiction to prescription medicines. I have been asked to reply on Ms Milton’s behalf. I was sorry to read … Continue reading

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Email from Private Office of Anne Milton MP to Jim Dobbin, MP, and the Earl of Sandwich (29 March 2011)

Re: Review of Addiction into Prescribed and Over-the-Counter Medicines Dear Mr Dobbin and Earl Sandwich Anne Milton has asked me to keep you updated about the review.  The reports have been received by the Department.  However, it is intended that they are peer-reviewed. … Continue reading

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Report of Meeting with the Royal College of General Practitioners (28 March 2011)

Report of the meeting on involuntary tranquilliser addiction with Dr Linda Harris, Head SMU, RCGP, Simon Ashmore, Head of Communications, RCGP and John Perrott  and Stephanie Holliday – Monday 28th March 2011 Simon Ashmore is Head of Communications and reports … Continue reading

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Article in the Daily Mail (22 March 2011)

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Email from Jennifer Stone to Anne Milton, Minister for Public Health (20 March 2011)

Dear Ms Milton, I have noticed that the Department of Health keeps saying it needs to find out the scale of prescribed benzodiazipine addiction.I have also noticed this extract from Panorama in 2001 whereProfessor Louis Appleby,National Director for Mental Health, … Continue reading

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Email from John Perrott to Joanne Littlefair, Customer Service Centre, Department of Health (19 March 2011)

Dear Ms Littlefair, Thank you for your letter of 14th March to my correspondent Jennifer Stone about prescribed benzodiazepam addiction. I would like to point out that the first four paragraphs of your response only describe what may happen in … Continue reading

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Email from John Perrott to Anne Milton, Minister for Public Health (16 March 2011)

Dear Ms Milton, In your response of 9th March 2011 to my MP, Eric Ollerenshaw, with regard to his Question 7 you state that: Ativan received a Licence of Right that was subsequently reviewed by the CRM and considered to have … Continue reading

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Letter from Joanne Littlefair, Customer Service Centre, Department of Health to Jennifer Stone (14 March 2011)

Dear Ms Stone, Thank you for your further email of 23 February to Anne Milton about addiction to prescription drugs.  I have been asked to reply on her behalf. One of the roles of the MHRA is to ensure that … Continue reading

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