Letter indicates lack of progress in UK

Bits from a letter at

http://www.appgita.com/index.php/2015/01/correspondence-with-duncan-selbie-ceo-public-health-england/

to: Duncan Selbie, Chief Executive, Public Health England

    10 January 2015

Constructive comments have already been sent repeatedly and in abundance

to PHE and the NTA over the years by Professor Ashton and the late Jim

Dobbin MP(APPGITA Chair). All of these have been ignored by the NTA & PHE.

…the Ashton manual, whose practice simply needs to be duplicated nationwide.

Local areas do not have this expertise and neither does PHE.

Rosanna O’Connor does not take any notice, does not understand the subject

and continues to adopt a substance misuse approach to involuntary tranqilliser

addiction. I will not be party to endorsing PHE’s flawed policy on addiction to

prescription tranquillisers.

I suggest that you investigate this yourself instead of relying on officials who

do not understand the subject and have their own agendas and that you also

visit Bristol and District Tranquilliser Project, which provides advice and

support to some of the 1.5 million patients addicted to these prescribed drugs

through no fault of their own.

Regards,  John Perrott