What went on at the hospital that 'experimented' on child patients?

[bogeyman]

"Dozens of people who were child patients at a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s and 70s claim they were experimented on with a so-called truth serum. It has left them with disturbing memories and troubling questions."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36803067

If this was going on in the 1960s and 1970s what the hell is going on now behind closed doors? Is there sinister motivations?

[Cidersomerset]

I saw the article earlier and put it on the saville thread and
I was thinking it probably deserves its own thread the BBC
article is quite large....

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What went on at the hospital that 'experimented' on child patients?

By Phil Kemp & Ruth Evans
File on Four, BBC Radio 4

Short vid on link.....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36803067

Dozens of people who were child patients at a psychiatric hospital in the
1960s and 70s claim they were experimented on with a so-called truth
serum. It has left them with disturbing memories and troubling questions.

"I was your typical 60s teenager," says Marianne, a softly-spoken woman
in her sixties.

Framed posters of musicians like Bob Dylan and John Lennon still hang on
the walls of the living room in her quiet semi in Derby and a feathered
dream-catcher twirls in the window.

"I liked fashion, I liked music. It was a good time to be young."

But Marianne's memories of the time aren't all so idyllic.

At the age of 14, she found out from a teacher that she was adopted.
Things became difficult at home and after getting into trouble with the
police, she was given probation and sent to Aston Hall, a "mental
deficiency hospital" treating adults and children.

All that's left today of the complex in Derbyshire is a grand white house
where the hospital's staff once lived. The site of the patient dormitories
is being redeveloped to make way for new homes.


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The patient dormitories at Aston Hall

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Dr Kenneth Milner, Aston Hall's medical superintendant, is alleged to have used sodium amytal on child patients


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36803067


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