questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make (a) an estimate of the cost to and (b) an assessment of the impact on health services of addiction to prescription drugs in each of the last five years.
answerText: The information requested is not held. There are primary care codes (SNOMED CT) that can be used by primary care teams to record the physical and mental symptoms associated with dependence and withdrawal from prescribed drugs, although there are challenge...
heading: Prescription Drugs: Addictions