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Indeed, several birth-control methods are available abroad but not in the U.S. Depo-Provera, an injectable contraceptive that prevents pregnancy for three months, is used in 86 countries. Ironically, it was created by the U.S.'s Upjohn Co., but it has repeatedly failed to win the approval of the Food and Drug Administration because of concern about side effects. Norplant, which releases a hormone for five years, is available in five nations. The implant was developed by scientists of the New York City-based Population Council and will be submitted to the FDA next year. But even if Norplant...
SENTENCED. Roger Gauntlett, 41, an heir to the Upjohn pharmaceutical fortune, who had pleaded no contest to a charge of sexually assaulting his stepdaughter, 14; to a year in jail and five years of "chemical castration" with Depo-Provera, which decreases the male sex drive and is manufactured by Upjohn; in Kalamazoo, Mich. With the drug, said Circuit Court Judge Robert Borsos, "it is now possible to castrate a man and at a future time reverse the effects." Both sides plan to appeal...
...Used by women in 83 countries as a long-term birth control agent, Depo-Provera has not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for contraception because tests suggest that it causes cancer in female dogs and monkeys. But doctors may prescribe the drug for other purposes, including treatment of sex offenders who volunteer with full knowledge of the risks involved...
...stark alternatives of surgical castration and incarceration ignore some other programs for treating sex offenders. One newly popular approach, sometimes dubbed chemical castration, uses a drug called Depo-Provera,* which sharply diminishes sex drive in men by reducing their production of testosterone. The drug gained national attention last summer when a Texas jury sentenced Rapist Joseph Frank Smith to ten years' probation instead of prison after he volunteered to undergo Depo-Provera therapy. Smith entered the nation's largest program at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. The program has 150 patients, 80% of them on parole and probation...
...Other Depo-Provera programs are under way in at least six locations. A program at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem also includes "aversion therapy," in which sex offenders are shown sexually enticing slides and are subjected to foul odors or mild electric shocks if they become aroused because of deviant feelings. Not all specialists in the field are impressed by these experiments. Richard Seely, who runs a highly regarded psychotherapeutic program for rapists and child molesters in Minnesota, considers Depo-Provera dangerous. He cites two men who became so depressed while taking it that they committed suicide...