GUINEA PIGS THERAPEUTIC IN PSYCHIATRY

GUINEA PIGS THERAPEUTIC IN PSYCHIATRY



Romania: "therapeutic subjects" in a psychiatric hospital

The Council of Europe said he is "deeply concerned" by the administration of psychotropic drugs for treatment in a psychiatric hospital teststo patients who were not really informed, in Romania.
During a visit of experts in June 2006, the Committee unhesitatingly (CPT) of the Council of Europe has discovered that programs in biomedical research (testing of psychotropic medications) were conducted on patients and social unless they are truly informed to the psychiatric hospital cases from Oradea (North West).
In a pavilion of the hospital, three psychiatric patients and two men sick but with a moderate degree of mental retardation, described as "chronic social cases", had signed a document of consent for this experience.
But they were convinced to administer "special medicines from abroad" much higher "to Romania ordinary drugs", the report published in Strasbourg with the consent of the Romania.
The Director of the hospital had no information on the current Protocol and did not even know if he had received the - mandatory - approval of an Ethics Committee.
These therapeutic guinea pigs were part of a group of 11 people (seven men and four women) interned "voluntarily" in the hospital as"social", and without appear on the lists of patients.
They performed menial work and many of them were not allowed to leave only the hospital, according to the CPT is concerned about the legal status of these patients/residents.
The report further States that a non-negligible proportion of inmates said avoir suffered ill-treatment during questioning by the police of Bucharest and avoir Department of Bacau (East of avoir country).
He was beaten with fists, truncheons, rubber, with a baseball bat or the butt of a pistol.
A minor detainee made State of touching.
In prisons, the CPT noted a general overcrowding with inmates forced to share beds in spaces tightened with a near-total lack of cell activities and overburdened health services.
In some cells of the Bacau prison, detention conditions "could rightly be characterized as inhuman and degrading" according to the report.
In the detention centres, the CPT has learned that it was not uncommon that foreign nationals placed in solitary confinement are handcuffed and chained to a metal bar set in the wall (at a height of about 50 cm) in the isolation cell