JUNE 1953
TRUTH OR DAZE?--"Two lawyers and two psychiatrists on the Yale University faculty recently issued a joint warning against the use of 'truth serums' in criminal investigations. The psychiatrists cited clinical evidence to show that 'normal' subjects readily hide what they wish to hide when under the influence of one of these drugs (sodium amytal), and that 'neurotic' subjects frequently confess to deeds of which they are innocent. The statements elicited by drugs, they said, are more apt to be symbolically significant than objectively true."
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