12 Drugs Used For Torture
Why waste time with the body when you can attack the mind?
“Narco-analysis” was published in 1943, pouring from the pen of J. Steven Horsley. On its heels came the pitch-black idea of drug-supplemented torture and interrogation. We’re talking pure wickedness here; instead of just harming the body interrogators began attacking the mind. Want examples? Here’s a few of the most depraved “torture brews” known to man.
1. Sodium Amytal
Sodium Amytal lowers inhibitions, giving the user mental clarity and the impulse to talk while offering the interviewer an unobstructed view of the subjects psyche. World War II was its debut, when interviewers begin using it to work with soldiers whom refused to talk on account of psychological trauma. Sodium Amytal, a barbiturate, would force the soldier to relive their wartime experiences and talk about them with the interviewer.
2. Mescaline
The peyote cactus can be processed into Mescaline, a hallucinogen with effects similar to those of LSD. The Nazis were first to use it during their mind control experiments, and later on the U.S. Navy gave it a go as a sort of truth serum. Both experiments failed. The Navy found that information gained from a psychotic (even when drug-induced) is unreliable. The Nazis found it impossible to control minds, even with the help of Mescaline.
3. Scopolamine
Scopolamine is most commonly known as the “truth serum”, having a remarkable track record of making criminals sing like canaries. However, not too many know the dirtier underbelly of scopolamine. It’s also a “zombie drug”, able to rob users of all free will, leaving them helpless to the wishes of the inducer. That is, if the miniscule amount needed doesn’t kill the victim beforehand.
4. Lysergic Acid (LSD)
LSD began making its rounds in the torture/interrogation community in the 1950’s during the CIA’s fittingly titled “Operation Artichoke”. How LSD is used by interrogators is completely opposite to what you might expect, though. Instead of relying on the psychosis the drug induces to get answers, LSD is used as a threat… as in, “spill the beans or we pump you full of this stuff”.
5. Amphetamine
Amphetamine and methamphetamine turns users into a literal chatterbox … with obvious torture-related benefits. When injected, victims experience an irresistible “push” to talk as their memories and emotions flood the brain. It’s been theorized that amphetamines would be perfect for pulling the truth out of subjects that are feigning amnesia or intentionally lying.
6. Pipradrol
Pipradrol works like amphetamine without all the nasty side effects (i.e. cardiovascular damage). With pipradrol, an internal flood of emotion gives users an amplified desire to talk and to move around. The value of loose lips doesn’t have to be underscored.
7. Ritalin
Ritalin (or phenidylate) is known for its anti-depression abilities. What isn’t widely known is its ability to “grease the chatter box”, which is an obvious plus for interrogators. Simultaneously, the experience an “arousal of mood” which is science-talk meaning that it makes them feel good.
8. TD – Strong Cannabis
TD, or truth drug, is extracted from the cannabis plant and injected into food or cigarettes. As the name suggests, it muffles any sense of prudence so that users talk without caution. And just like its marijuana sister, interviewees sink into a state of mirth and are so happy they’re willing to talk on just about anything.
9. Chlorpromazine (thorazine)
Phenothiazine derivates (such as chlorpromazine) could find in combination with an agitator or intimidating drug, like LSD. Either interviewees cooperate during the interrogation, or the drug is not administered –if they talk they get some piece of mind as they are pumped up with tranquilisers.
10. Twilight Zone
Imagine being stuck in that moment of half-dream/ half-reality you feel right as you wake up and right as you fall asleep. Now imagine the use somebody like the CIA could get from trapping you in that state. This is known as “the twilight zone” technique, and interrogators pump one arm full of a barbiturate (such as thiopental) and the other full of a stimulant (such as amphetamine), locking one’s psyche into a brain-breaking cycle of waking dreams.
11. Sodium pentothal
Sodium Pentothal is a barbiturate which, when not being used as a sedative during prison executions, can be used in lighter doses as a “truth serum”. It doesn’t, however, force one into honest; it only erases discretion and makes truth telling more likely.
12. Versed
Versed is particularly diabolical and slightly frightening. Subjects under the influence feel pain and discomfort fully. But when the drug wears off, all memory of the pain and the torture session itself is purged from the mind. The diabolical a heart might see the potential in using versed along with non-marking torture techniques.
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Just a note – the picture in #9 is clomipramine (Anafranil, an anti-depressant) not chlorpromazine (Thorazine, an anti-psychotic).
Though as a bit of trivia, clomipramine has it’s own notoriety for having a (rare) side effect of causing an orgasm every time one yawns. Not exactly a torture agent – though reported to be highly inconvenient by those affected, particularly male patients (for fairly obvious reasons).
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Technically, these are all drugs used for interrogation, not torture. 5, 6, 7 and 8 apparently cause no discomfort, which is categorically not torture, no “extreme mental distress”, no “unbearable physical pain”. Aside from the slight misnomer, though, very interesting.
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Coming from someone who has done most of these drugs, its a pretty neat compilation. But the TD or “strong cannabis” as these neurotics refer to as a “drug” is just dank ass weed. Its the good shit son and it is in no way shape or form a means of getting the truth out of someone. Talkative is a stretch, but definitely does not muffle any sense of prudence so that users talk without caution.
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This article is riddled with errors and your sources are not really sources for the most part. Do some research, try some peer reviewed journals.
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pretty much everything written here is bullshit
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I’m very disturbed by the vague information in this article about the chemical scopolamine. Scopolamine may be a poisonous deliriant(aka, true hallucinogen), as it’s a belladonna alkaloid, but it’s only lethal at a certain dosage, just like alcohol is. Small amounts rarely kill. It’s the active ingredient of many medications. I have taken scopolamine myself to treat nausea and vomiting, which was prescribed to me by my doctor. At high doses, anything can be lethal, even water. The recreational use of scopolamine is what is dangerous, as it’s hard for the lay person to measure the dosage. However, that’s rarely the case when doctors supervise the dosage.
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This admins quite nasty. How to you expect people to read your articles when you have such a bad attitude towards them when they comment on it.
its called criticism…get over it
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TD? truth serum cannabis? bwahahahahahaha bwahahahahah!!!!!!! thats the most ridiculous thing ever! i tell you what if the government wants to give me a few hits of lsd i say bring it on, and definitely the mescaline, oh and roll me a fatty mcfatty of that strong dangerous cannabis, can i order that or am i able to pick that up at my local governments office?
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February 11th, 2011 at 12:21 pm
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oh yeah ritalin as to get the truth out? i lied my but off all the way through elementary school and middle school and they had me on enough ritalin to satisfy the coke needs of a big city nightclub. they would be smarter to use cocaine as it is stronger and has basically the same effect.
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February 11th, 2011 at 12:20 pm
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Strong cannabis? How can cannabis be used to torture? lulz. not saying you can’t do whatever you want with your website, just saying your living room sucks ass…
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Pretty much everything written here is interesting. Including the response to “Pretty much everything written here is bullshit”
I keep telling myself “don’t read the comments!” and then I do anyway but it’s times like this that at least I get a giggle out of it.
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April 15th, 2011 at 10:37 am
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