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The Canadian Gothic

Steve Smith's Bad Trip - LSD, torture, and the Oak Ridge Medical Asylum

The Canadian Gothic

Curiouscast

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Would you believe me if I told you that a Canadian mental health hospital was conducting cruel experiments on patients, using LSD, rape, embarrassment and torture as recently as the 1980s? If you don't believe me, buckle up for this one as we are about to receive a guided tour through Ontario's controversial Oak Ridge Medical Asylum and the many unimaginable things that took place within it. One of the many lives altered by Oak Ridge's cruelty is Steve Smith, in fact, many of the secrets that have been revealed since the experiements ceased, are a result of his determination to expose the truth of what happened in those walls. Tonight, in this episode of Nighttime, we will be joined by Oak Ridge Survivor Steve Smith. Episode Links: Steve Smith on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CaptainAnatine Steve Smith’s ‘the Psychopath Machine’: https://www.amazon.ca/Psychopath-Machine-Story-Resistance-Survival/dp/1460287843/ CBC’s ‘Bad Trip’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-FbXDuiINY CBC’s ‘the Secret’s of Oak Ridge’: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2684717122 CBC’s ‘treatment or torture’: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1868783683546 Send a voicememo to the show: nighttimepodcast.com/contact Subscribe to the show: premium feed: https://www.patreon.com/Nighttimepodcast apple podcasts: https://applepodcasts.com/nighttime Musical Theme: Noir Toyko by Monty Datta Social Links: Website: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/NightTimePod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NightTimePod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimepod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Would you believe me if I told you that a Canadian mental health hospital was conducting cruel experiments on patients using LSD, rape, embarrassment and torture as recently as the 1980s?

1:10.0

Well, if you don't believe me, buckle up for this one.

1:14.0

And if you do believe me, you're likely already familiar with Ontario's controversial Oak Ridge medical asylum and the unimaginable things that took place within it.

1:24.0

Those gates behind me are all that's left of Oak Ridge, long the only psychiatric forensic unit in Ontario.

1:31.0

For about two decades, the criminally insane were brought here for what was considered a cutting-edge treatment.

1:37.0

The mastermind behind it all was Dr. Elliott Barker.

1:41.0

His theory was that the real problem those criminals faced is that they couldn't express their innermost feelings.

1:47.0

Do that, Dr. Barker believed, and you could cure mental illness.

1:52.0

We now know that Dr. Barker's treatments were as ineffective as they were harsh.

1:58.0

And new information has revealed that the real Oak Ridge story is far more bizarre than has ever been reported.

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