Dispatches: Acid Test

Record ID: 118559
  • Title: Dispatches: Acid Test
  • Date: 3rd April 1996
  • Summary: The investigative series reveals fresh evidence of how thousands of psychi- atric patients were administered LSD without their knowledge or permission and how many are still experiencing the effects thirty or forty years later. It also reveals how military experiments with the drug were far more exten- sive than has been admitted,how Parliament has been misled over the nature,extent and timescale of the programme of LSD given to soldiers,and broadcasts an extraordinary film showing the effects of LSD on soldiers in training. Includes contributions from; Dr. Henry Rollin (Emeritus Consultant Psychiatrist),Dr. Henry Abrahams (Chief of Substance Abuse,Butler Hospital,Rhode Island,USA),Professor Malcolm Lader (Institute of Psychiatry),Edward Myers (Solicitor for Royston Clarke),Molly Wookey,Gloria Batchelor,`Winifred' (ex-Powick patients) and Betty Bonsall (ex-Marlborough patient).
  • Description:TBA
  • Broadcaster:Channel 4
  • Collection: Channel 4
  • Genre:Documentary and Factual
  • Producer:Unspecified
  • Programme Episode:Episode 1
  • Transmission Date:03/04/1996
  • Rights:On Request
  • Decade: 1990s
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