Barbiturate

JONATHAN ARDEN, MEDICAL EXAMINER, FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST: The sequence of medications you described, first, is thiopental or sodium pentothal, which is an ultra-short-acting barbiturate which is supposed to sedate you, anesthetize you, knock you out. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Pentobarbital is a barbiturate sold under the name Nembutal that Lundbeck markets as an epilepsy treatment. ❋ Jeanne Whalen (2011)

Never a man skilled at self-preservation, Birkeland began to drink too much whiskey, take large doses of Veronal (a highly addictive and damaging barbiturate prescribed for insomnia) and slide into a twilight of excessive work, paranoia and illnesswith no one to stop him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The vet put an IV in Fran's arm and injected him with a lethal dose of barbiturate. ❋ Ann Bogle (2011)

The doctors who signed the open letter, led by David Nicholl, a neurologist at City Hospital in Birmingham, want to see Hospira following the example of Lundbeck, the Danish manufacturer of a barbiturate called pentobarbital that has been also used in US executions. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Garland was suicidal on several occasions, but the cause of her death was a legal barbiturate overdose. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So why the fascination with a life that, for all the diversions through tinsel town, stretched from miserable foster homes to barbiturate overdose? ❋ Unknown (2011)

An anesthesiologist who testified in Bonnyman's court told Nashville Scene about what autopsies found in three inmates who did not receive enough of one of the execution drugs, sodium thiopental, a barbiturate that causes loss of consciousness. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A year ago it suspended all production in America of sodium thiopental, a barbiturate widely used as the first stage of the lethal cocktail, after it became clear that it could face penalties in Italy, where it was also manufacturing the sedative. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Consider, for instance, the following passage from the book, which describes his daily breakfast routine during the 70s: I would take a barbiturate to wake up … a Tuinal, pin it, put a needle in it so it would come on quicker. ❋ Sean O (2010)

The drama put a spotlight on the lethal-injection drug, thiopental sodium, a barbiturate that is often used as part of anesthesia before surgery. ❋ Vauhini Vara (2010)

He swallowed Benzedrine every morning for twenty years, from 1938 onward, balancing its effect with the barbiturate Seconal when he wanted to sleep. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The drug at issue is thiopental sodium, a barbiturate used by states to render death-row inmates unconscious before other lethal drugs are used to complete an execution. ❋ Nathan Koppel (2010)

First, a barbiturate is used to put prisoners to sleep; then, the muscle relaxant is given to stop them moving or screaming; finally, a third chemical, potassium, is injected to stop their heart. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Found dead in her L.A. home on August 5, 1962, the official cause of death was listed as “acute barbiturate poisoning” and was recorded as a “possible suicide.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

More than a chant of approval and acclamation, the long, languorous uuuuuuuu seemed to soothe the mood of the barbiturate brood looming in the gloom of the student union, grooving to the music. ❋ BILL FLANAGAN (2010)

*Sodium amatol was a barbiturate used to treat catatonic mutism. ❋ Donald Sturrock (2010)

During another period the doctors prescribed her a nightly dose of the barbiturate sodium amytal. ❋ Ethan Watters (2010)

Eighteen months later, in August 1962, she was dead of a barbiturate overdose, at the age of 36. ❋ Unknown (2010)