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From the archive, 27 August 1977: President Carter backs testing of drugs on prisoners | From the archive, 27 August 1977: President Carter backs testing of drugs on prisoners |
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The Carter Administration has decided to continue the practice of authorising drug companies to use prisoners as human guinea-pigs. The US is the only country which still officially approves of such experiments, including behaviour control and the testing of potentially lethal drugs and vaccines on prisoners. | The Carter Administration has decided to continue the practice of authorising drug companies to use prisoners as human guinea-pigs. The US is the only country which still officially approves of such experiments, including behaviour control and the testing of potentially lethal drugs and vaccines on prisoners. |
Some reformers had hoped that the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare under Mr Carter's nominee, Mr Joseph Califano, would at least dramatically tighten the control on drug testing in line with the recommendations of the commission which looked into the issue last year. | Some reformers had hoped that the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare under Mr Carter's nominee, Mr Joseph Califano, would at least dramatically tighten the control on drug testing in line with the recommendations of the commission which looked into the issue last year. |
But the new regulations, which have just been cleared through the department and are on the Secretary's desk awaiting signature, are understood to fall short of the commission's recommendations. | But the new regulations, which have just been cleared through the department and are on the Secretary's desk awaiting signature, are understood to fall short of the commission's recommendations. |
They will not insist - as the commission had proposed - that drug companies must show compelling reasons for using a captive population for their testing. A high-level source at the Department of Health said yesterday that the department felt there were legal complications to applying such a demand on drug companies. | They will not insist - as the commission had proposed - that drug companies must show compelling reasons for using a captive population for their testing. A high-level source at the Department of Health said yesterday that the department felt there were legal complications to applying such a demand on drug companies. |
The revelation about the CIA's past use of mind control and drug tests on Americans has focused attention on the issue of human guinea-pigs. The use of prisoners by drug companies and by federal agencies, including the US Department of Public Health and the Army, has not, at least in recent years, involved such extreme attempts at brainwashing, creating amnesia, and personality changes. Nor has it involved people without their knowledge, as some of the CIA tests did. Nevertheless opponents of drug testing on prisoners have maintained that the concept of informed consent is impossible to apply in a prison. Yet the American drug industry tries out 85 per cent of its new drugs on prison inmates.This is an edited extract. You can read the full article here. | |
In 2006, some US medical advisers wanted to bring back pharmaceutical testing on inmates. | In 2006, some US medical advisers wanted to bring back pharmaceutical testing on inmates. |
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