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The Doctors Who Drugged Prisoners: Inside Lexington's LSD Experiments
The Doctors Who Drugged Prisoners: Inside Lexington's LSD Experiments
Six hundred micrograms of LSD was given after seventy-seven consecutive days of daily dosing - quadruple the amount that could dissolve a man's sense of reality - and the men sat quietly, reading and watching television. How did federal custody, medical research, and intelligence agency requests combine inside a single institution to produce results the World Health Organization relied on, and what price did the subjects pay?
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