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truth drug

noun

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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Later, Olson met with American intelligence officers who had experimented with “truth drugs” in Europe.

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An independent report in 2018 found children were allegedly given a "truth drug", stripped, abused and put in straitjackets.

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The US Office of Strategic Services, forerunner of the CIA, was testing mescaline as a ‘truth drug’ around the same time.

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A report found children were allegedly given a "truth drug", stripped, abused and put in straitjackets.

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He said he remembers being injected with what he now knows is sodium amytal, also known as the truth drug, as well as another drug which is still unknown to him.

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