VA testing drugs with SEVERE side effects (phychosis, suicide) on veterans

[babylonsister]

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jun/17/va-testing-drugs-on-war-veterans/

VA testing drugs on war veterans
Experiments raise ethical questions
Audrey Hudson (Contact)
Tuesday, June 17, 2008



The government is testing drugs with severe side effects like psychosis and suicidal behavior on hundreds of military veterans, using small cash payments to attract patients into medical experiments that often target distressed soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, a Washington Times/ABC News investigation has found.

In one such experiment involving the controversial anti-smoking drug Chantix, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) took three months to alert its patients about severe mental side effects. The warning did not arrive until after one of the veterans taking the drug had suffered a psychotic episode that ended in a near lethal confrontation with police.

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Just two weeks after Mr. Elliott began taking Chantix in November, the VA learned from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that the drug was linked to a large number of hallucinations, suicide attempts and psychotic behavior. But the VA did not alert Mr. Elliott before his own episode in February.

In failing to do so, Mr. Elliott said, the VA treated him like a "disposable hero."

"You're a lab rat for $30 a month," Mr. Elliott said.

[DS1]

1. A bunch of loungers are on Chantix

[hendo]

7. I can see that nt

[MountainLaurel]

2. Sigh, what's new? n/t

[havocmom]

3. cheney does not want ANY survivors to have to provide services for.

His corporate sponsors/masters cannot steal as much from money for actual human beings. Much bigger profit margin in goods so they don't want any people to deal with.

[Mojorabbit]

4. I became suicidal

on Chantix. The company still maintains that the drug is safe according to my hubby who went to a physician meeting with a spokesman for the company.

[L0oniX]

5. A repeat of the LSD tests on soldiers back in the 1950's.

http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/cases/research/stanley.htm

[hendo]

6. at least with the LSD there was the chance of a good trip. nt

[Jackpine Radical]

8. In Vietnam they tested drugs on us while we were in-country.

You could be court-martialled for not taking the experimental drugs. The 1st Cavalry Division was the experimental group for an untested anti-malaria pill.