The famed chemical sodium pentothal, which is commonly known as truth serum, has been a mainstay of spy flicks for decades. In real life, scientists have tested it on spies, psychiatric patients ...

Some truth serums, like sodium thiopental, slow the speed at which your body sends messages from your spinal cord to your brain. As a result, it's more difficult to perform high-functioning tasks ...

THE use of Pentothal Sodium as an intravenous anesthetic agent has found wide acceptance in the field of gynecologic surgery. This is probably related to the following basic considerations ...

This denial is puzzling: If the market for Pentothal is really over, why bother continuing to make it, especially when you also disapprove of the product's other commercial use, killing people?

Sodium thiopental, trade name Sodium Pentothal (among others), is a general anesthetic that acts quickly but only for a short time. The preparation of this member of the barbiturate family of ...

Anesthesia on the Continent has lagged behind anesthesia in the United States.... Recently, however, a large number of Continental clinics are using intravenous anesthesia extensively not only for ...