For many many years governments (and non-governments) have been using crazy natural and synthetic (mostly synthetic) drugs to alter the minds of prisoners to make them confess to crimes both committed and planned.
Here is the story of two of these drugs, you can find a whole list of them and their histories here.
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.
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.
Interesting stuff.
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