NHS is wasting up to £568m a year on pointless pills as thousands of patients are given medication they don't need, study shows

NHS is wasting up to £568m a year on pointless pillsas thousands of patients are given medication they don't need, study shows The NHS is wasting up to £568million a year on pills that patients do not need and can leave them with dangerous addictions, a study shows.

Doctors in England are dishing out habit-forming drugs such as opioids, antidepressants, benzodiazepines and sleeping pills to hundreds of thousands of people who should not be on them. The Daily Mail

See also: 

• The costs incurred by the NHS in England due to the unnecessary prescribing of dependency-forming medications (abstract) Addictive Behaviors