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They Gave Prisoners LSD for 77 Days - Who Consented?
They Gave Prisoners LSD for 77 Days - Who Consented?
Astonishingly, for seventy-seven consecutive days in 1956 incarcerated men at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, were dosed daily with LSD until by day three the drug stopped working and the researchers quadrupled the dose. Who were these men, how were they compensated, and what did "consent" mean inside a locked federal ward where access to opiates depended on cooperation?
In this episode, we lay out the facts documented in the record: the institutional setting, the lead researcher, the daily dosing schedule…
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