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	<description>All Party Parliamentary Group for Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction</description>
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		<title>Appeal by John Perrott to the Information Commissioner&#8217;s Office against a refusal by the Department of Health&#8217;s Freedom of Information Team 1 May 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.appgita.com/index.php/2013/05/appeal-by-john-perrott-to-the-information-commissioners-office-against-a-refusal-by-the-department-of-healths-freedom-of-information-team-1-may-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Information Commissioner&#8217;s Office Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF 1 May 2013 Dear Sir/Madam, I wish to appeal to the ICO against the refusal by the Department of Health FOI Internal Review reference IR 724555, dated 6 &#8230; <a href="http://www.appgita.com/index.php/2013/05/appeal-by-john-perrott-to-the-information-commissioners-office-against-a-refusal-by-the-department-of-healths-freedom-of-information-team-1-may-2013/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from Professor Heather Ashton to Nicky Jayesinghe, Secretariat of the British Medical Association (BMA), 14 May 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Nicky, Your e-mail reply sent May 12 is confusing. The scope says that the Board of Science met immediately after the BMA meeting on addiction to prescribed drugs in January. I now understand from you that all they decided &#8230; <a href="http://www.appgita.com/index.php/2013/05/letter-from-professor-heather-ashton-to-nicky-jayesinghe-secretariat-of-the-british-medical-association-bma-14-may-2013/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>APPGITA update, April 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health Anna Soubry MP announced a change of direction on addiction to medicines at a conference organised by the National Treatment Agency in London on the 28 February 2013. In her keynote speech, Anna &#8230; <a href="http://www.appgita.com/index.php/2013/04/update-by-appgita-campaign-co-ordinator-michael-behan-april-2013/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from Anna Soubry MP, Minister for Public Health, to Jim Dobbin MP (22 April 2013)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Letter from Jim Dobbin to Anna Soubry, Minister for Public Health, (21 March 2013)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 08:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anna Soubry MP Minister for Public Health Department of Health, Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2NS 21 March 2013 Dear Anna, On 12 March 2013 the MHRA posted a benzodiazepine learning module on its website, this information was circulated &#8230; <a href="http://www.appgita.com/index.php/2013/04/letter-from-jim-dobbin-to-anna-soubry-minister-for-public-health-21-march-2013/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Middle-aged people addicted to sleeping pills and tranquilizers because GPs over-prescribe them, health minister says, The Telegraph, 3 April 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews Middle-aged people are addicted to sleeping pills and tranquilizers because doctors have been over-prescribing them, a health minister has suggested. Anna Soubry, a health minister, said GPs’ willingness to over-prescribe some drugs had created an “addiction” to them which &#8230; <a href="http://www.appgita.com/index.php/2013/04/middle-aged-people-addicted-to-sleeping-pills-and-tranquilizers-because-gps-over-prescribe-them-health-minister-says-the-telegraph-3-april-2013/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Email from John Perrott to Clare Gerada, Chair of Council, Royal College of General Practitioners</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Dr Gerada, Further to my email to you of 23 March 2013 I would like your opinion regarding the huge increase in psychotropic drugs prescribed in England in the last 6 years. Psychotropic drugs dispensed extracted from the Prescription &#8230; <a href="http://www.appgita.com/index.php/2013/03/email-from-john-perrott-to-clare-gerada-chair-of-council-royal-college-of-general-practitioners/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Email from John Perrott to Clare Gerada, Chair of Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners, (March 23 2013)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Dr Gerada, I am writing to express concerns about the RCGP and you regarding involuntary tranquilliser addiction: 1. Your statements on the subject contain misconceptions, inaccuracies and assertions which are not based on any scientific evidence or data. 2. &#8230; <a href="http://www.appgita.com/index.php/2013/03/email-from-john-perrott-to-clare-gerada-chair-of-council-of-the-royal-college-of-general-practitioners-march-23-2013/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Addiction to Medicines: Commissioning Services After the Health Reforms (13 March 2013)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taken from: http://www.nta.nhs.uk/news-2013-atmconf.aspx Commissioners and providers of drug treatment services came together on 28 February to consider future commissioning and provision of services for dependence on prescription and over-the-counter medicines, especially benzodiazepine tranquillisers, at a national conference in London organised by &#8230; <a href="http://www.appgita.com/index.php/2013/03/addiction-to-medicines-commissioning-services-after-the-health-reforms/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Email from John Perrott to Dr Clare Gerada, Chair of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners (07 March 2013)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Dr Gerada, In the paper attached which you co-wrote in 2002 on prescribed tranquillisers you acknowledge that &#8221; there are an estimated 1 &#8211; 1.5 million long-term users:&#8221; In the Daily Mail article today you are quoted as saying &#8230; <a href="http://www.appgita.com/index.php/2013/03/email-from-john-perrott-to-dr-clare-gerada-chair-of-the-council-of-the-royal-college-of-general-practitioners-07-march-2013/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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