'Friendly' Visits and 'Evil Men': The Home Office Drugs Inspectorate
Mars, SG;
(2012)
'Friendly' Visits and 'Evil Men': The Home Office Drugs Inspectorate.
In: Mars, SG, (ed.)
Politics of Addiction: Medical Conflict and Drug Dependence in England since the 1960s.
Palgrave, Basingstoke, 89-+.
https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1105219
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There was a sort of general feeling amongst doctors that if you were interviewed by one inspector, you were OK but if two of us turned up you were in trouble. And I think that a number of doctors who were then treating addicts [in the mid-1980s] were sort of advised if they carried on like this they could end up in tribunal and a number of them bailed out from treating addicts, a lot of private doctors said 'I don't need this aggro'