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  • OXMAN: Well, I'm going to ask people to take a look at that magazine, because it discusses a drug called sodium amytal, which is a hallucinogenic barbiturate.

    CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2003 2003

  • Combining the administration of drugs like sodium penathol, baradanga, and sodium amytal with a skilled interrogator is normally quicker, more efficient and easier on the basement janitorial crew afterwards, provided you have the time.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Real Torture Debate 2010

  • During another period the doctors prescribed her a nightly dose of the barbiturate sodium amytal.

    Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010

  • I got down to about 4 when the "truth serum" (sodium amytal, not pentathol, was used.)

    Paulette Cooper: I Took a Truth Serum Test 2009

  • This changed only after he was administered sodium amytal, an invasive, mind altering drug that medical experts have frowned on and courts have disregarded in witness testimony.

    Bury the Never Ending Myth of Jackson as Child Molester 2009

  • # This involves the use of sodium amytal and hypnosis for the creation of amnesia barriers and deliberate insertion of false memories.

    [fragmented society] the fish rots at the head 2009

  • This changed only after he was administered sodium amytal, an invasive, mind altering drug that medical experts have frowned on and courts have disregarded in witness testimony.

    Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Bury the Never Ending Myth of Jackson as Child Molester 2009

  • # This involves the use of sodium amytal and hypnosis for the creation of amnesia barriers and deliberate insertion of false memories.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • In addition to sodium amytal, the Air Force used Sodium Pentothal, a so-called truth serum, to produce a state of dreamy semiconsciousness, during which doctors, in a semidarkened room, aggressively probed and provoked the patient, trying to induce him to relive the traumatic experience that had sent him into an emotional descent.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • By May 1944, a total of 311 patients had received sodium amytal narcosis at one of the CME centers.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

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