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Chemically Induced Psychosis Experiments

Chemically Induced Psychosis Experiments: An Inhumane Paradigm in Psychiatric Research Congressional Testimony submitted by Vera Sharav * February 2, 2000 Statement For the Record Submitted To U.S. Senate Sub-Committee: Public Health & Safety of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee Hearing Our efforts helped bring to public attention…

Chemically Induced Psychosis Experiments: An Inhumane Paradigm in Psychiatric Research


Congressional Testimony submitted by Vera Sharav

Statement For the Record Submitted to
The U.S. Senate Sub-Committee: Public Health & Safety of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee Hearing

Our efforts helped bring to public attention major medical ethics violations in Federally-funded research in which uninformed, vulnerable American citizens are put at high risks without justification. As a result, such individuals have often suffered severe consequences – some have lost their lives unnecessarily. Based on the evidence – including testimonies by families and patients – we believe five factors contribute to unethical human experiments:

Evidence of Neuroleptic Drug-Induced Brain Damage in Patients


A partial, Annotated Bibliography by Vera Hassner Sharav

For distribution: January, 2000

Although patients, families and the public were not informed – some would argue they were deceived – clinical psychiatrists and researchers have long known about severe adverse drug reactions (ADR) and disabling changes in the central nervous system in a high percentage of patients taking standard neuroleptic drugs.

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Evidence of Neuroleptic Drug-Induced Brain Damage

Evidence of Neuroleptic Drug-Induced Brain Damage in Patients: A partial, Annotated Bibliography by Vera Hassner Sharav ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) 142 West End Ave. Suite 28P New York, NY 10023 212-595-8974 FAX: 212-595-9086 e-mail: veracare@rcn.com For distribution: January, 2000 Although patients, families and the public were not informed…

Public Comments Re: Smallpox Vaccine Trial on 2 to 5 Year Old Children, Pg 6

Public Comments Re: Smallpox Vaccine Trial on 2 to 5 Year Old Children Please do not place young children in jeopardy by testing this vaccine on them. Children’s bodies and minds are still fragile and growing, and a vaccine that has so far caused many adverse reactions in adults can…

Protect the Mentally Ill — St. Louis Post-Dispatch — Editorial

May 30, 1998. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Editorial. “Protect the mentally ill.” p. 38 What sort of physician would take schizophrenics off their medications and give them drugs known to cause paranoia just to see how the patients react? What sort of unscrupulous researchers would give psychotic patients amphetamines to worsen…

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Psychiatric Researchers Under Fire — NY Times, May 19, 1998

The New York Times May 19, 1998 Psychiatric Researchers Under Fire By PHILIP J. HILTS ANDREW BROWNSTEIN, a severe manic-depressive, was desperate. None of his medicines could keep the anxiety and depression of his illness at bay. So in the fall of 1994, he agreed to become a research subject…