What is it used for.
2006-08-24 13:56:13 · 8 answers · asked by penhabsa 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
The truth drug, you cannot lie while you are under its influence.
2006-08-24 14:00:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sodium Pentathol
2016-10-02 23:29:17 · answer #2 · answered by amarvesh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sodium thiopental, better known as Sodium Pentothal (a trademark of Abbott Laboratories), thiopental, thiopentone sodium, or trapanal, is a rapid-onset short-acting barbiturate general anaesthetic. Barbiturates are a class of drugs that act on the GABAA receptor in the brain and spinal cord. The GABAA receptor is an inhibitory channel which decreases neuronal activity and the barbiturates enhance the inhibitory action of the GABAA receptor. Barbiturates, benzodiazepines, and alcohol all bind to the GABAA receptor, yet the barbiturates bind with the highest affinity. This explains why overdoses of barbiturates may be lethal whereas overdoses of benzodiazepines alone are typically not lethal. Barbiturates have anesthetic, sedative, and hypnotic properties. Barbiturates do not have analgesic effects.
It can be used for Anesthesia, Medical-induced comas, Euthanasia, Lethal injection, Truth Serum, and Psychiatry.
2006-08-24 13:58:25 · answer #3 · answered by Crescent 4 · 9⤊ 0⤋
Sodium pentothal is a fast acting, short duration anaesthetic & barbiturate.
It is used in early stage anaesthesia, as a truth serum, part of lethal injection doses & as an euthanasia agent.
2006-08-24 23:37:19 · answer #4 · answered by Fi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As the nurse said but it's not really a truth serum. It massively disinhibits secrecy but makes the subject highly vulnerable to suggestion not only can people lie but if you put a suggestion in their mind they start babbling about the scenario you've just given them.
It's not like hollywood makes it out to be.
In advanced interrogation courses you are taught how to lie under the influence of it. it's actually very easy to do.
2006-08-24 16:09:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Truth serum. You can't help but tell the truth once you're injected with it. No you can't have it for your husband - it's a controlled substance.
2006-08-24 14:02:19 · answer #6 · answered by Mike K 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Sodium pentathol is a hell of a drug.
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////Don't know why I am using them here
2006-08-24 14:16:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dosent actually make you tell the truth.
It is more like bieng drunk I believe, it will make you more open to talking but in no way means that what you say will be true.
2006-08-24 13:58:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
truth serum to get the truth out of people
2006-08-24 13:58:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Truth serum. Supposedly it gives you diarrhea of the mouth.
2006-08-24 13:57:24 · answer #10 · answered by spackler 6 · 9⤊ 1⤋