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Washington Post
Some Detainees Are Drugged For Deportation - Immigrants Sedated
Without Medical Reason
by Amy Goldstein and Dana Priest
The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has
deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep
them sedated during the trip back to their home country, according to
medical records, internal documents and interviews with people who
have been drugged.

The government's forced use of antipsychotic drugs, in people who have
no history of mental illness, includes dozens of cases in which the
"pre-flight cocktail," as a document calls it, had such a potent
effect that federal guards needed a wheelchair to move the slumped
deportee onto an airplane.