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<P><JC><B>The Truth About Truth Serums</B>
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<P>The barbiturate Sodium Pentothal, or Thiopental Sodium, manipulates one's neural membrane making it more permeable to chloride ions. The process begins with the cortex, then works its way down to the lower brain regions with increasing biological effects. This results in the affected individual becoming less inhibited.
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<P>At an appropriate dosage, the subject will recieve a slight neural inhibitory effect to create an alcohol-like disinhibition of normal behavioral restraints. At higher dosages, but not high enough to cause unconsciousness, the subject may enter a a stupor which inhibits independent thought and action to a greater extent resulting in an individual who is more suggestible and less willful. A context for either recalling memories or constructing new ones may then be created by an operator. The actual verity of the testimony achived in this manner will be impossible to determine from the session alone, however.