truth drug

British

noun

informal any of various drugs supposed to have the property of making people tell the truth, as by relaxing them

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Former child patients at the now-closed Aston Hall hospital claim that a doctor at the hospital experimented on them with the so-called "truth drug", sodium amytal.

From BBC

He claimed that police didn’t have a valid search warrant, violated his Miranda rights and injected him in the neck with a mysterious truth drug.

From Washington Post

It was decided that sodium thiopental might form the basis for a truth drug, an interrogation tool.

From BBC

India's Supreme Court has said that the use of a truth drug by the police for questioning suspects is illegal and a violation of their fundamental rights.

From BBC

He well knew that once the truth drug was administered—and this Highness would not now be satisfied with anything less—he was as good as dead.

From Project Gutenberg

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