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Detained and drugged: a brief overview of the use of pharmaceuticals for the interrogation of suspects, prisoners, patients, and POWs in the US

TitleDetained and drugged: a brief overview of the use of pharmaceuticals for the interrogation of suspects, prisoners, patients, and POWs in the US
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsCalkins, L.
JournalBioethics
Volume24
Pagination27-34
ISBN Number1467-8519 (Electronic)0269-9702 (Linking)
Accession Number20017745
KeywordsAmobarbital/administration & dosage Coercion Conscious Sedation/ethics/methods Criminals Human Experimentation/ethics/legislation & jurisprudence Human Rights Abuses/ethics/legislation & jurisprudence Humans Hypnotics and Sedatives/ administration & dosage Interviews as Topic/ methods Law Enforcement/ethics/methods Patients Politics Prisoners Scopolamine/administration & dosage Terrorism/ethics/legislation & jurisprudence/prevention & control Thiopental/administration & dosage Torture/ethics/legislation & jurisprudence Truth Disclosure United States WarHuman Experimentation Human Experimentation
Abstract

Using medical literature citations, Congressional hearings, and declassified documents this paper examines the uses of pharmaceuticals in the interrogation of vulnerable populations. From the use of IV relaxants on criminal suspects during the 1920s to the Global War on Terror, the nexus of drugs, testing, and interrogations will be explored in both the domestic and international contexts.
Notes

Calkins, LauraEnglandBioethicsBioethics. 2010 Jan;24(1):27-34.
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