Is there a serum of truth?

The truth serum is a drug used to obtain information during investigation from entities who are not willing to answer or somehow unable to remember first -hand facts. In this way, several drugs, including sodium pentothal, sodium thiopental (anesthetics), alcohol grain (ethanol), scopolamine (highly toxic depressive) and barbiturates. The same drugs have many other applications: in psychiatry they are used to treat phobia as general anesthesia and even to produce medically induced COMA.

The truth of serum was often displayed in fiction and movies as a magical solution. Even the character of Barty Crouch in "Harry Potter" books is exposed to a magical version and ends with a list of crimes. Many films, especially films that were published several decades ago, when the use of such medicines at the peak of popularity, portrayed serum as 100% effective. TV series 24 , Docudrama Shell Shock , and many others used it as a device fence.

In real life, however, the use of these drugs as a serum of truth is very controversial. Although they usually make a person more likely to tell the truth, they also make him confused by what he says. When a person becomes more and more speakers, the line between reality and imagination begins to blur. Experts believe that up to 50% of what one says when it is under the influence of such drugs is either a decorated version of the truth or a complete invention. It causes an effect similar to alcohol intoxication, inhibition reduction and causes people to be chatier and more prone to answering questions.

Military intelligence in the US and Russia is testing other drugs as a potential replacement for those currently used. Both countries still use these drugs in controversial cases where other Methods did not provide a response, including high -ranking military cases and circumstances concerning national safetythose.