Dozens of people who were child patients at a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s and 70s claim they were experimented on with a so-called truth serum. It has left them with disturbing memories and troubling questions.
"I was your typical 60s teenager," says Marianne, a softly-spoken woman in her sixties.
Framed posters of musicians like Bob Dylan and John Lennon still hang on the walls of the living room in her quiet semi in Derby and a feathered dream-catcher twirls in the window.
"I liked fashion, I liked music. It was a good time to be young."
But Marianne's memories of the time aren't all so idyllic.
At the age of 14, she found out from a teacher that she was adopted. Things became difficult at home and after getting into trouble with the police, she was given probation and sent to Aston Hall, a "mental deficiency hospital" treating adults and children. (more...)
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