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

From BBC

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.

From BBC

Lutz has long asserted that after his arrest, police had injected him in the neck with a mysterious truth drug.

From Washington Post

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

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