Dependency Forming Medicines

[NHSBSA-Open-Data]

Overview

This publication describes the prescribing and dispensing of dependency-forming medicines in a primary care setting in England. It does not include data on medicines used in secondary care, prisons, or issued by a private prescriber.

This publication was developed in response to the Public Health England (PHE) review of dependence and withdrawal associated with some prescribed medicines, also known as the prescribed medicines review (PMR) (PDF: 2.9 MB). Included within its recommendation was the increased availability and use of data on the prescribing of medicines that can cause dependence.

This publication provides a national view of prescribing of dependency forming medications for the use of policy makers, the general public and other users. It can be used for research and evidence when answering high-level questions.

This release includes metrics on the volume and cost of prescribing of dependency forming medications and various demographic breakdowns and breakdowns by Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) quintiles. Geographical breakdowns by integrated care boards (ICBs) are included in the supporting summary tables.

This is an experimental Official Statistics release.

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