Graham Rhodes began to research the subject of drug related rape and sexual abuse during the spring of 1996 when he came across and researched two separate incidents of drug related sexual abuse.
One woman was drugged during a business appointment at someone's house, taken into the countryside, gang raped in front of a live audience, and the event recorded on video. The second victim was her female solicitor who went on a date with a man, and woke up the following morning in her own bed realising that she had experienced sex the previous night, but couldn't remember anything about it.
The research took four months during the course of which, Graham spoke to many paid and voluntary workers in areas of both drug abuse and sexual violence, and realised that he was the only person gathering these facts and that the research he was undertaking was, at that time, unique in Great Britain.
This research showed up the fact that drug rape was occurring in Great Britain in greater numbers than anyone first supposed.
In the Christmas of 1996 the telephone help-line was established and the Roofie Foundation began its work.
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