U.S. Injected Gitmo Detainees With ‘Mind Altering’ Drugs

international | anti-war | other press Wednesday July 11, 2012 23:54 by pat c

Prisoners inGuantanamo who had been diagnosed with serious mental health problems and who were on psychoactive medications were continuously interrogated. Other prisoners were given drugs against their will. Full story at link.

Prisoners inside the U.S. military’s detention center at Guantanamo Bay were forcibly given “mind altering drugs,” including being injected with a powerful anti-psychotic sedative used in psychiatric hospitals. Prisoners were often not told what medications they received, and were tricked into believing routine flu shots were truth serums. It’s a serious violation of medical ethics, made worse by the fact that the military continued to interrogate prisoners while they were doped on psychoactive chemicals.

The inspector general report also notes that former Guantanamo prisoner and former Saudi policeman named Adel al-Nusairi, was never given Haldol shots during interrogations, but was forced to take monthly injections as he was diagnosed as ”schizophrenic and psychotic with borderline personality disorder.” Other ”uncooperative” detainees were also forced to take injections. ...

At least one detainee, so-called “dirty bomber” Jose Padilla was tricked into believing he was injected with a “truth serum” during an interrogation, possibly a form of LSD or PCP. In reality, it was a flu shot. Still, it’s a “serious breach of medical ethics,” Georgetown University law professor and health policy specialist Gregg Bloche told Truthout. “It undermines trust in military physicians and it’s an unfair insult to the integrity of the vast majority of military doctors, who quite rightly believe that this sort of thing is contrary to their professional obligation,” Bloche said. ...