Home Office backed secret drug trials on ‘irritable & restless’ children

‘Home Office employees approved plans to carry out experimental drug trials on children at two schools for disruptive teenagers in the 1960s, newly-declassified documents reveal.
Government psychiatrists gave the green light to testing new behavior-modifying drugs on boys at Richmond Hill Approved School in North Yorkshire and girls at Springhead Park Approved School in Rothwell, near Leeds.
The boys, aged 15 and above, were given an anticonvulsant drug in a bid to control their behavior.’
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