Fifteen survivors of the Lake Alice child and adolescent unit - the Rangitīkei psychiatric institution where children were ...

The payments, announced in December, were open to survivors injected with the painful paralysing drug paraldehyde or who received electroconvulsive therapy. It was part of a $22.68 million package ...

A just-released cabinet paper about rapid torture redress payments to survivors of the Lake Alice child and adolescent unit in the 1970s says it's not possible to rule out torture at other locations.

The drugs administered to 17 patients included chloroquine, novalgin, paraldehyde, procaine penicillin, and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine. However, the most neurotoxic agents tested in a previous ...