Journalist sees danger in industry-funded tests
(NEWSER) - Dan Markingson was a happy, smart 26-year-old from Minnesota, until the day his mother visited him in Los Angeles and found him delusional, even murderous. He was hospitalized in November 2003 and would have been involuntarily committed—but he was granted a stay, on the condition that he comply with a treatment program laid out by his psychiatrist. Instead, he was allegedly coerced into a clinical trial for antipsychotic drugs. Despite his mother's repeated insistence that his drug wasn't working, Markingson's doctors kept him in the study—and less than six months later, he killed himself. More»
