ABSTRACT

Opiates In the 1960s it became clear that there had been a change in the type of opiate addict notified to the Home Office. A small number of addicts who had become dependent on heroin obtained illicitly were reported to the Home Office for the first time. The number of these non-therapeutic addicts rapidly increased. The numbers of therapeutic addicts hardly changed at all (Bewley 1965a, b). At this time also a small number of slightly older nontherapeutic heroin addicts arrived from Canada for private treatment by Dr I. M. Frankau (Lady Frankau, the wife of Sir Claud Frankau, Consultant Surgeon, St George's Hospital). Twenty-six such addicts arrived in 1962 but the numbers each year diminished rapidly in the next five years (Frankau 1961, 1964).