A unique scientific study is under way in Sweden to see if drugs can prevent paedophiles from acting on their sexual urges.
The
trial sees self-confessed paedophiles given a drug normally used to
treat advanced prostate cancer, in order to determine if it reduces the
risk of them sexually abusing a child.
It
is hoped the £1,000-a-year ($1,415) prostate cancer medicine Degarelix -
a drug that stops testosterone from being produced - will reduce sex
drive and curb urges.
The drugs
trial at Stockholm's Karolinska Institutet involves 60 patients have
sought help for paedophile fantasies, but have not acted on them.
'The
goal is to establish a preventive treatment programme for men with
paedophiliac disorder that is both effective and tolerable so that we
can prevent child sexual abuse from happening in the first place,'
psychiatrist and lead researcher Christoffer Rahm said.
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