Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The term "truth serum" refers to a number of mind-altering drugs. These drugs make you incapable of lying, or so the theory goes.

A VARIETY of musculoskeletal injuries are known to occur as a complication of electroconvulsive therapy. Such injuries vary from muscular strains to fractures of long and flat bones. Lingley and ...

The American Society of Anesthesiologists says it is “extremely troubled” to learn that the anesthetic sodium thiopental, or Pentothal, has been removed from the U.S. market after its sole ...

In a padlocked refrigerator behind San Quentin State Prison’s death chamber, 12 grams of scarce sodium thiopental is available to carry out up to four executions. How the California Department of ...

OK I have heard of this "truth drug" before and I know it is used in anesthesia, but how does it apply as a "truth serum"? What other kinds of truth serums are there? Does this stuff actually work?

Pharmaceutical manufacturer Hospira has announced that it will not reinstate production of its drug Pentothal (sodium thiopental). The anesthetic agent's use as part of a lethal cocktail administered ...

THE increasing use of Pentothal Sodium as an important anesthetic agent during major surgical procedures is well attested in the current literature on methods of anesthesia. That its optimal ...