HC Deb 02 December 1980 vol 995 c125W
Mr. Dalyell

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what study is being made of the relationship between tie increased need for medication and requests to doctors for valium and the rise of unemployment.

Sir George Young

The Department is involved in several studies in the general area of unemployment and health but has not, at the moment, any work in hand on the specific question raised of the relationship between unemployment and the use of drugs such as valium.

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