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On 1 March 2022 we confirmed the re-opening of our face-to-face services within Bristol & are in the process of contacting existing clients & recent callers (*friends, family & neighbours') about the additional services we can provide. We are in the process of contacting our existing clients with details.

Recent articles regarding prescribed drugs:
NHS to give therapy for depression before medication under new guidelines (Nov 2021) www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/23/nhs-to-give-therapy-for-depression-before-medication-under-new-guidelines

Government review finds 10% of drugs dispensed in England are pointless (Sept 2021) www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/22/government-review-finds-10-of-drugs-dispensed-in-england-are-pointless

'Safe' Z-drug sleeping tablets given to a million each year are as potent as Valium (April 2021)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9482003/Safe-Z-drug-sleeping-tablets-given-MILLIONS-year-addictive-Valium.html
 
Dr Ellie Cannon: How do I get more sleeping pills now GP has cut mine? (March 2021)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9333295/DR-ELLIE-CANNON-sleeping-pills-GP-cut-mine.html

How anxiety during lockdown led me to prescription drugs (Jan 2021)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/01/lockdown-anxiety-prescription-drugs-coronavirus-restrictions

Antidepressant use in England soars as pandemic cuts counselling access (Jan 2021)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/01/covid-antidepressant-use-at-all-time-high-as-access-to-counselling-in-england-plunges

People taking antidepressants for years should slowly come off the drugs, scientists warn (Feb 2021) https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/people-taking-antidepressants-years-should-21538619
 
‘Why are doctors STILL failing to tell patients they may never be able to give up antidepressants?’ (January 2021) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9179333/Why-doctors-failing-tell-patients-never-able-antidepressants.html#comments
 
‘More than 6 million people in England use antidepressants as record number turn to pills during Covid lockdown, new figures show’ (January 2021)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9106219/More-6million-people-England-use-antidepressants-record-number-turn-pills-lockdown.html
 
‘Now I’ve quit benzodiazepines, this year will be the first I can remember for a decade’ (Dec 2020) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/30/quit-benzodiazepines-anxiety-medication-withdrawal-pandemic
 
‘The good, the bad, the ugly of coming off antidepressants’ (July 2020) https://metro.co.uk/2020/07/28/coming-off-antidepressants-13049947/
 
‘Millions of people in England taking medicines they can find hard to stop’ (Sept 2019) https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/sep/10/addictive-medication-nhs-opioid-crisis-government-study-england

Royal College of Psychiatrists published new guidance on stopping antidepressants https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-features/latest-news/detail/2020/09/23/new-information-on-stopping-antidepressants  

Public Health England dependence and withdrawal problems associated with prescription medicines https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2019/09/10/moving-forward-from-the-prescription-medicines-review/

CEP response to Public Health England review http://cepuk.org/2019/09/10/appg-prescribed-drug-dependence-welcomes-groundbreaking-report-public-health-england-prescribed-drug-dependence-withdrawal/  

​Latest news from the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Prescribed Drug Dependence is available at http://prescribeddrug.org/news/