In March 2018 David Rhodes reported on warnings from doctors that the NHS was fuelling an addiction crisis because of an increase in the prescribing of powerful painkillers.
- ONS: Deaths related to drug poisoning in England and Wales. Data are presented by cause of death, sex, age, substance(s) involved in the death, and by country and region - cahced version in this repo
- Home Office: Drug misuse: findings from the 2016 to 2017 CSEW - cached copy in this repo
- NHS Digital: Practice Level Prescribing in England: a summary
- OpenPrescribing
- Nicki Hari, UK Addiction Treatment, former opioid user
- Professor Jonathan Chick, Castle Craig Hospital, a rehabilitation clinic in Peeblesshire, Scotland
- Dr Luke Mordecai, University College London Hospitals
- Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, chairwoman, Royal College of GPs
- Spokesman, NHS England
- Bar chart: Number of death certificates that mention opioids
- Bar chart: Items prescribed per 1,000 residents, by NHS region