One of the studies _ which withheld antipsychotic medications from stabilized schizophrenia patients and gave them L-dopa, known to induce psychosis in the mentally ill _ was cited in a four-part series that ran in the Globe three months ago, highlighting psychiatric research abuses.
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Dr . Steven E . Hyman, who left Boston more than two years ago to head the nation's mental health research agency, also won approval Friday for a more stringent review of proposed studies to induce psychosis or withdraw or deny medication from mentally ill volunteers.
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For instance, in a case where a woman with a substance-induced psychosis murdered her mother expert witnesses testified that the defendant had " personality defects " that predisposed her to psychosis, and that the psychosis was triggered by chronic substance abuse and the resulting nine months of hospitalization.
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:This is a worthless non-expert impression, but I think that some drugs ( e . g . hallucinogens ) and some techniques of inquisitors, interrogators and torturers can induce psychosis, hallucinations and other severe mental distortions rather quickly . talk ) 08 : 37, 1 August 2009 ( UTC)
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And the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, appointed by the president, has recommended that the US Department of Health and Human Services retain the Institute of Medicine to review placebo-controlled studies, along with research that induces psychosis in people with mental illness, according to Eric M . Meslin, the commission's executive director.
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Using a THC-dominant strain / breed can show anecdotally that it may help people with insomnia ( and other sleep disorders ) get more rest, and that it could reduce the severity of tics in people with Tourette syndrome, yet the same strain could induce psychosis in a person with a psychiatric disorder.
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While the suspension order referred only to procedural violations and not to the ethics of specific tests, the West Los Angeles VA is among the facilities highlighted in a Globe series on psychiatric research abuses in November, specifically for being part of a 1987 study that gave amphetamines to the mentally ill to induce psychosis in order to study the disease's biology.
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While the possibility of experiencing long-term harm from a drug-induced psychosis is less likely among healthy people, there is still the risk that some normal subjects will have flashbacks months afterward, even if they apparently have no history of substance abuse or mental illness that would make them vulnerable, according to the Globe's review of LSD and ketamine research, and ethicists familiar with the research.
