Released on = August 27, 2006, 8:09 am

Press Release Author = Citizens Commsission on Human Rights

Industry = Healthcare

Press Release Summary = The LSD Experiments have been documented to result in
suicide (attempted and realized), homicide, paranoid psychoses, severe depression,
acute schizophrenic reactions, extreme anxiety, and flashbacks.

Press Release Body = The idea of giving Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to drug
addicts, as talked about by Dr. Perry Kendall, Provincial Health Officer and other
British Columbia health authorities has been utterly condemned by The Citizens
Commission on Human Rights calling the concept an "experimentation on human beings",
a blatant suppressive act and a definite breach of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights. Article 5. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman
or degrading treatment or punishment.

Such experimentation would have to follow The Nuremberg Code which is a set of
principles for human experimentation set as a result of the Nuremberg trials at the
end of the Second World War. Specifically, they were in response to the inhumane
Nazi human experimentation carried out during the war by individuals such as Dr.
Josef Mengele.

In a letter to the Minister of Health, the Honorable George Abbott, the CCHR pointed
out the utter fallacy of giving an illegal drug to addicts and made reference to
the total failure of other similar psychiatric based programs.

In the late 1950s, psychiatrists at the New Westminster-based Hollywood Hospital
catered to a mixed clientele of American celebrities and Canadian politicians who
were given LSD to treat alcoholism, drug addiction and psychological burn-out. For
almost a decade after LSD was criminalized in North America in the late 1960s,
Hollywood Hospital served up therapeutic LSD before the provincial government pulled
funding in 1975 and the hospital closed.

In early 1967, A Psychiatrist, Dr. Barker commenced a new series of experiments on
the patients at Oak Ridge Hospital in Penetanguishene, Ontario. The LSD Experiments
were conducted as part of the "Defense Disruption Therapy" program but only on a
select group of patients within the program were subjected to the experiment.

The men who were chosen for the experiment were escorted to Oak Ridge's F Ward where
the LSD was administered. There, in the Capsule, or Box, or white room, a group of
stripped naked men were confined to an area where they would be in various states of
drug induced "trips" that would sometimes last a number of days.

Patients were given massive doses of LSD either orally or injected intramuscularly
and at times administered in combination with Methedrine (a drug of the amphetamine
group. Also known as methamphetamine, it is used as a stimulant).

The LSD Experiments have been documented to result in various serious and long
lasting symptoms, including but not limited to suicide (attempted and realized),
homicide, paranoid psychoses, severe depression, acute schizophrenic reactions,
extreme anxiety, and "flashbacks".

Cold war era intelligence services were keenly interested in the possibilities of
using LSD for interrogation and mind control, and also for large-scale social
engineering. The CIA conducted extensive research on LSD, which was mostly
destroyed. Project MKULTRA (also known as MK-ULTRA) was the code name for a CIA
mind-control research program begun in the 1950s and continued until the late 1960s.

Introduced by Sandoz Laboratories as a drug used by the psychiatric industry,
LSD quickly became promoted as one of psychiatry's "wonder drugs". However, the use
of the drug in Western society in the middle years of the twentieth century led to
a political firestorm that resulted in the banning of the substance for medical as
well as recreational and spiritual uses.

Brian Beaumont,. President of the Vancouver chapter of CCHR said, "The health
authorities should be shooting the idea of giving addicts another more damaging drug
to contend with down in flames instead of even considering the idea. Psychiatrists
have already experimented with LSD on human beings several times over in past years
and like all of their other practices these experimentations have been a total
failure resulting in a great many ruined lives".

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights was established by the Church of Scientology
to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights.

If you know of anyone, including a child, who has been abused or harmed by a
psychiatrist call The Citizens Commission on Human Rights at 1 800 670 2247.
Complete confidentiality assured.







Web Site = http://www.cchr.org

Contact Details = Citizens Commission on Human Rights
401 West Hastings Street
Vancouver,Brtish Columbia
V6B1L5
humanrights@lightspeed.ca. 604-689-4417