Category Archives: PERROTT

Email from John Perrott to Dr June Raine, Director, Vigilance, Risk Management of Medicines, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (04 December 2011)

Dear Dr Raine, I noted from your last communication that you will no longer answer questions explaining why you will not investigate Wyeth withholding safety data from the UK Ativan data sheet or explain why it took a further 18 years for warnings … Continue reading

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Email from Mary Heaton, Customer Service Centre, Department of Health to John Perrott (27 October 2011)

Dear Mr Perrott, Thank you for your further email of 11 October to Anne Milton about addiction to prescribed benzodiazepine. I have been asked to reply on her behalf. As both the Medicines Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the Department for Work … Continue reading

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Letter from John Perrott to Liberty (17 October 2011)

To Liberty 26-30 Strutton Ground London SW1P 2HR Dear Sir/Madam I am writing for advice on an issue that Liberty has helped with before, which is the issue of the huge number of patients who have been damaged by addictive … Continue reading

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Email from John Perrott to Anne Milton, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health (10 October 2011)

Dear Anne Milton, I initially wrote to the Department of Health in February 2010 explaining how I have been damaged by 35 years of being mis-prescribed the tranquilliser Ativan/lorazepam. I became a supporter and researcher for the APPGITA as a … Continue reading

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Email from Dr June Raine, Director, Vigilance, Risk Management of Medicines, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to John Perrott (23 September 2011)

Dear Mr Perrott Thank you for your email dated 7 September 2011 outlining your ongoing concerns about the data submitted by Wyeth in their licence application for Ativan. I have given you the Agency’s position on this matter in earlier correspondence on … Continue reading

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Email from Mary Heaton, Customer Service Centre, Department of Health to John Perrott (08 September 2011)

Dear Mr Perrott, Thank you for your further email of 23 August about addiction to medicines. Anne Milton, the Parliamentary Under Secretary for Public Health, announced in a Written Ministerial Statement of 11 May that she would be leading on … Continue reading

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Email from John Perrott to Dr June Raine, Director of Vigilance and Risk Management of Medicines, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (07 September 2011)

Dear Dr Raine, Thank you for your reply of 10 August 2011. If I may draw your attention to the core of my enquiry and the chronology of exchanges, you said you would investigate if I sent you evidence of … Continue reading

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Why prescribed benzodiazepine addiction/withdrawal has nothing to do with substance misuse (05 September 2011)

It is apparent that the Department of Health and its advisors, doctors and many others do not fully understand benzodiazepine withdrawal. I have therefore worked with Professor Heather Ashton, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychopharmacology at Newcastle University and leading world … Continue reading

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Email from Mary Heaton, Customer Service Centre, Department of Health to John Perrott (23 August 2011)

Dear Mr Perrott Thank you for your emails of 4 August to Anne Milton and Andrew Lansley and for your email to me of 16 August about the addiction to medicine reports. Your emails to the Ministers have been forwarded to me to … Continue reading

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Email from John Perrott to Mary Heaton, Customer Service Centre, Department of Health (16 August 2011)

To Mary Heaton, Department of Health Dear Mary Heaton, I am writing regarding your responses to patients who have suffered as a result of negligent benzodiazepine prescribing and would remind you that many have endured prolonged suffering as a result. I would … Continue reading

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