Prescription Drugs: Misuse
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of misuse of prescription drugs.
Answered by Karin Smyth
The Department has made no such assessment. We are unable to assess trends in this area because there is no universal definition of prescription only medicine misuse, and data is not routinely collected, particularly for patients using medication without a prescription, or outside recommended prescribing parameters.
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