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psychiatric hospitals. We were then shown around the Shanghai

Chest Hospital which is apparently the biggest in China but in

fact only has some 450 beds, was built in 1957 and gave the

impression of being poorly maintained and equipped.

employs some 30 staff in its pharmacological department. I

think Shanghai misinterpreted my work. We spoke exclusively

to pharmacists and I doubt if they were well briefed on the

drug problem (if any) in Shanghai. Their main concern seemed

to be the internal ordering and control of hospital drugs.

28.

One minor comment of interest was that it was

common for psychotropic drug abuse to be treated by means of family and workmate counselling and support.

29.

We gave

gave the Shanghai Bureau of Health the same

material as listed in paragraph 9 above together with a video

of "The White Powder War" (English version) and undertook to

send a Chinese version when available. We were invited to

dinner by Dr. Lin Fa-xiong,

Municipal Health Bureau on

Deputy Director of the Shanghai

Thursday, 5 November, having

ourselves invited him and his staff on Wednesday, 4 November :

Iain C. Orr, HM Consul General was not able to attend our

function due to a prior engagement.

However, we paid a

courtesy call on him at the Consulate and briefed him on the

people we had seen both in Shanghai and in Beijing. Orr had