> Involuntary Drugging of Detainees
>
> STEPHEN SOLDZ
> Counterpunch
> Friday, May 16, 2008
>
> In Soviet Russia, psychiatrists sometimes collaborated with
> the repressive regime by locking up dissidents in mental
> hospitals and injecting them with powerful psychotropic drugs,
> "antipsychotics" designed to treat schizophrenia. The Soviet
> psychiatrists were rightly condemned for their misuse of
> medicine for the un-therapeutic  purpose of social control.
>
> American health personnel are not immune from cooperating with
> efforts to misuse psychiatric drugs for social control
> purposes having no connection with those drugs' intended uses.
> The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has
> been systematically administering psychotropic drugs to
> immigrants in the process of being deported as the Washington ...