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schema:text	“One in four people is hooked on prescription drugs” Daily Mail social media headline, 10 September 2019 Headlines have warned that over 11 million people in Britain or “one in four people” are prescribed potentially addictive medication. This was broadly the finding of a Public Health England (PHE) review into five specific types of medication—although the figures were for adults in England rather than all people across the UK or Great Britain. That’s not to say that all of these people have an addiction or dependency on these drugs, in fact PHE specifically said it wasn’t possible to say how many people had a dependency based on the data. This was generally correctly reported by the media, but the social media headline used by the Daily Mail saying that “one in four people is hooked on prescription drugs” (which wasn’t repeated in its article), is incorrect. Honesty in public debate matters You can help us take action – and get our regular free email 11.5 million people received at least one prescription for a drug that could cause dependency Public Health England (PHE) published the findings of a review into five different classes of prescribed medication. These were benzodiazepines (mainly prescribed for anxiety and insomnia), Z-drugs (prescribed for insomnia), gabapentinoids (for neuropathic pain), opioid pain medications and antidepressants. Using data from prescriptions, it found that around a quarter of adults in England (or 11.5 million people) had received a prescription for at least one of these medicines in 2017/18 and then had that prescription dispensed. On the whole, PHE found that “Prescriptions for antidepressants and gabapentinoids are increasing, but prescriptions for opioid pain medicines are decreasing, after rising for many years. Prescriptions for benzodiazepines continue to fall, and those for z-drugs have more recently started to fall.” It also says that “It is difficult to determine the prevalence of dependence on, or withdrawal from, the medicines covered in the review from any available data sets, but the data on the duration of prescribing suggests that dependence and withdrawal are likely to be significant issues”. So although these drugs have the potential to cause dependency, this is not always the case.
schema:mentions	Insomnia Substance dependence Antidepressant Kingdom of England Public Health England Daily Mail Anxiety Opioid Pain Social media United Kingdom dbpedia:Nonbenzodiazepine Physical dependence Benzodiazepine Neuropathic pain
schema:reviewRating	Correct for adults in England in 2017/18. This is the number of people who had received at least one prescription for one of five specific types of potentially addictive drug.
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