Monthly Archives: August 2011

Email from John Perrott to Andrew Lansley, MP, Secretary of State for Health (04 August 2011)

Dear Mr Lansley, I emailed you earlier this morning bringing to your attention that the main author of the NAC report on addiction to prescribed medicine, Professor John Strang, had a conflict of interest in that he has a consultancy … Continue reading

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Email from John Perrott to Andrew Lansley MP Secretary of State for Health (04 August 2011)

Dear Mr Lansley, The Department of Health and the MHRA websites both contain two reports, one written by The National Addiction Centre, King’s College London, and School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, 2011 entitled “The changing use … Continue reading

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Responses to comments from Dr Gerada (03 August 2011)

Responses to Dr Heath, President, RCGP and Anne Milton MP, Public Health Minster regarding Dr Gerada’s uninformed comments on Radio 4′s Face the Facts about tranquilliser addiction and withdrawal may be found on this link http://www.benzo.org.uk/perrott11.htm

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Email from John Perrott to Professor Sir Alasdair Breckenridge, Chair, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (03 August 2011)

To Professor Sir Alasdair Breckenridge, Chair MHRA cc Dr June Raine, Director, Vigilance and Risk Management of Medicines Dear Sir Alasdair, The MHRA website contains a recent Drug Safety Update entitled “Addiction to benzodiazepines and codeine: supporting safer use” and … Continue reading

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Email from Josh Jarrett to Anne Milton, MP, Public Health Minister (02 August 2011)

Dear Ms Milton I want to say thank you for recognising the plight of the estimated 1.5 million people addicted to Benzodiazepines on BBC 4 radio’s Face the Facts programme. I will not lie, I cried when I heard you … Continue reading

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Email from Jim Dobbin, MP to Dr Iona Heath, President of the Royal College of General Practitioners (02 August 2011)

Dear Dr Heath, Dr Clare Gerada, Chair of the RCGP’s, was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 on 27th July. I am Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction (APPGITA) and I would like to complain to … Continue reading

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Letter from Prof Heather Ashton to Dr Iona Heath, President of the Royal College of General Practitioners (02 August 2011)

Dear Dr. Heath, On the recent radio programme “Face the Facts” on BBC Radio 4, Dr. Clare Gerada was blatantly wrong when she claimed that withdrawal effects from long-term benzodiazepine use are overstated. She cannot have had any experience of … Continue reading

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Daily Mail article “Is your Doctor turning you into a drug addict?” (02 August 2011)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2021362/Is-doctor-turning-drug-addict.html By John Naish Last updated at 2:15 AM on 2nd August 2011 ‘The doctors just kept giving me the drugs because it meant they had an easy life,’ said Laura Walsh These days, Laura Walsh, a 46-year-old mother-of-two, looks … Continue reading

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