APPG Chair Danny Kruger MP, and co-chair Lord Crisp have written to Dr Paul Chrisp, Director of the Centre for Guidelines in response to the draft Safe Prescribing and Withdrawal Guideline. They express concerns that the withdrawal management sections of the draft guideline do not currently provide the basic information about tapering to enable patients to […]
AGM to be held 18th January 2022
Danny Kruger MP will chair an online AGM and meeting on 18th January 2022. It will be a closed meeting open only to interested parliamentarians and invited guests. Minutes will be posted on this site in due course.
New research shows £500m wasted each year in England on dependency-forming medicines
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence released new research on the 19th October which estimates that around half a billion pounds of taxpayers’ money is wasted each year in England on medicines that can cause dependency, including antidepressants, painkillers and sleeping pills. This research follows the publication in 2019 of Public Health England’s Prescribed Medicines Review, which […]
APPG for Prescribed Drug Dependence reforms for the 2019 parliament
The APPG for Prescribed Drug Dependence has now been reformed for the 2019 parliament with Danny Kruger MP as chair, Lord Crisp as co-chair, and the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry (CEP-UK) providing the secretariat. Minutes of the inaugural meeting are available under the ‘minutes’ tab. The group will continue to focus on recognising, addressing and […]
APPG for Prescribed Drug Dependence welcomes groundbreaking report by Public Health England on prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal
PRESS RELEASE For immediate release 10 September 2019 APPG for Prescribed Drug Dependence welcomes groundbreaking report by Public Health England on prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal The All Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence (APPG-PDD) today welcomes the publication of a report by Public Health England which recognises for the first time the scale […]
Minutes available from APPG meeting on 13 June 2019
The minutes from the last meeting are now available and can be found at this link: http://prescribeddrug.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/APPG-Minutes-130619.pdf
Minutes available for EGM 27 March 2019
The minutes for the APPG-PDD EGM held on the 27 March 2019 can now be found here: http://prescribeddrug.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/APPG-PDD-Minutes-EGM-27-03-19.pdf
Minutes and slides available of APPG meeting on 7 Feb 2019
The minutes and slides from the meeting of the APPG for PDD on 7 Feb can be found here: APPG-PDD minutes AGM 7-2-19 (see also PHE presentation to APPG-PDD 7-2-19)
Minutes and slides available from AGM of APPG-PDD held on 17 Oct 2018
Please follow this link to download minutes and slides from the meeting of the APPG for Prescribed Drug Dependence on 17 Oct 2018.
Many doctors may be failing to warn patients about the risks of antidepressants, new APPG research suggests
The All Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence today publishes two new pieces of research which indicate that many doctors and psychiatrists may be failing to warn patients about the potential risks of antidepressants, and subsequently fail to recognise withdrawal symptoms. Furthermore, sources of NHS support for patients, such as NHS 111, were found […]