The Lived Experience Advisory Panel for Prescribed Drug Dependence is made up of people with both lived and professional experience of dependence and withdrawal from prescribed psychiatric and painkilling drugs.
It is a coalition of people who can play a representational role for those who have experienced prescribed drug dependence, initially with the aim of offering experience and information to organisations setting up new services to support this patient group.
The panel includes patients, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, peer support workers, researchers and managers of existing dedicated services. Its set up has been facilitated by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence (2020 to present) and its secretariat.