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Solicitor, Medical Negligence
National Archive files have revealed that a North Yorkshire Approved School sanctioned the use of experimental drugs on children during the 1960s, without the knowledge or consent of the participants or their parents.
Many will find the report of medical drug trials on schoolboys at a State-run Approved School deeply concerning. The tests to see whether Beclamide, an anticonvulsant prescribed for epilepsy, would be effective in controlling the behaviour of the school's most disruptive residents were suggested by the school's Psychiatrist and this was endorsed by the Home Office.
This took place in 1967 and it seems unconscionable that drug trials on children could ever occur without their parents knowledge and/or consent. The ethics in medicine were very different during this time. The 1960s was a period when the ethics today’s medical professionals are expected to adhere to were very much in their infancy, meaning there was still an emphasis on paternalism, and doctors rather than patients determining what was in the patient's best interests.
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