Lier Psychiatric Hospital (Lier Psykiatriske Sykehus or Lier
Asyl in Norweigan) in Norway, has a long history as an
institution. The sickest people in the society was stowed away
here and went from being people to be test subjects in the
pharmaceutical industry’s search for new and better drugs. The
massive buildings house the memory of a grim chapter in
Norwegian psychiatric history the authorities would rather
forget. UPDATE: When you have read this post you might be
interested in reading my report one year later! The buildings
welcome you Many of the patients never came out again alive and
many died as a result of the reprehensible treatment. It was
said that the treatment was carried out voluntarily, but in
reality the patients had no self-determination and the
opportunity to make their own decisions. Must be creepy at night
There is little available information about the former
activities at Lier Hospital. On this page (In Norwegian) you can
read more about the experiments that were carried out on this N