
GPs Given More Power to Help Addicts Come Off Prescription Drugs
Chris Smyth, Health Correspondent The Times, November 18 2013 Thousands of patients could be helped to break their addiction to tranquillisers under guidance to GPs issued after an investigation byThe Times. Family doctors will be told to wean long-term addicts off benzodiazepines much more slowly under revisions to their prescribing “bible”. More than one million […]