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Adverse Psychiatric Effects Of Roaccutane

EDM number 556 in 2013-14, proposed by Nick Harvey on 10/10/2013.
Categorised under the topics of Health services, Medicine and Mental health.

That this House notes with great concern that the Roaccutane form of isotretinoin has been implicated in reports of 878 psychiatric disorders, including 44 suspected suicides, since its registration in 1983; further notes that Roche, the drug's manufacturers, maintain that there is no causal link between Roaccutane and suicidal tendencies; further notes that its variant in the US, Accutane, has proved controversial and was withdrawn from the US market as a commercial decision following mounting litigation; further notes that clinical studies using the drug on rats and mice have discovered evidence of disruption to serotonin levels, causing depression, but that similar studies have not been conducted on humans; and urges, in light of the increasing number of tragic suicides of recent years, the withdrawal of Roaccutane from the UK market pending further and full investigations into adverse reactions to the drug, to prevent further unnecessary deaths.

This motion has been signed by a total of 26 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Nick Harvey10/10/2013North DevonLiberal DemocratProposed
Gordon Henderson10/10/2013Sittingbourne and SheppeyConservativeSeconded
Richard Drax10/10/2013South DorsetConservativeSeconded
Andrew Rosindell10/10/2013RomfordConservativeSeconded
Paul Flynn10/10/2013Newport WestLabourSeconded
Mark Durkan14/10/2013FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Jim Dobbin14/10/2013Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Sandra Osborne14/10/2013Ayr, Carrick and CumnockLabourSigned
Jim Shannon14/10/2013StrangfordDUPSigned
Naomi Long15/10/2013Belfast EastAllianceSigned
Alan Meale15/10/2013MansfieldLabourSigned
Martin Caton15/10/2013GowerLabourSigned
Margaret Ritchie15/10/2013South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
David Simpson15/10/2013Upper BannDUPSigned
John Leech15/10/2013Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
William McCrea16/10/2013South AntrimDUPSigned
David Ward16/10/2013Bradford EastLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock21/10/2013Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Goggins22/10/2013Wythenshawe and Sale EastLabourSigned
Annette Brooke24/10/2013Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew George25/10/2013St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Charlotte Leslie25/10/2013Bristol North WestConservativeSigned
Hazel Blears31/10/2013Salford and EcclesLabourSigned
Bob Russell31/10/2013ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Thornton20/11/2013EastleighLiberal DemocratSigned
Adrian Sanders06/01/2014TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned

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