TRUTHSERUM

Truth serum

A "truth serum" is a colloquial name for any of a range of psychoactive medications used to obtain information from subjects who are unable or unwilling to provide it otherwise. Any information from the truth serum report is corroborated by further investigation. They are lawfully and productively used in investigation in select civil and all criminal cases and the evaluation of psychotic patients in the practice of psychiatry.

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truth serum

Noun

  1. A psychoactive medication, especially one administered by injection, which supposedly renders a person cooperative and disposed to respond honestly to questions.


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