What are the three drugs used in lethal injections?
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The first one is sodium thiopental, an ultrashort-acting drug. It acts within a minute to make the brain unconscious. From that point on it begins to wear off. Depending on the dosage, the individual may wake up within three or four minutes. The second drug is called succinylcholine. It acts at the point where the nerves enervate the muscles, and it causes an overstimulation of the muscle so you get muscle twitching all over the body. The muscles are then completely flaccid and unable to move. This drug will act for about 10 minutes, but if given in much larger doses it can act longer. The final drug that is used is called potassium chloride. We use that drug to stop the heart beating when we are doing heart surgery and in lethal injection it is used to stop the heart beating, never to start again.
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If I were going to die, I would choose lethal injection, I guess. We could always implement an overdose execution then at least the criminals could go off into lala land happily....BUT, that's too easy for them. I say hang em.
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Hydroxycut, Xenoxel , Growth hormone, H2
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Many of the drugs were sulfur based. Also aspirin, neosynephrin, tincture of iodine, mercurochrome, Gentian's Violet, unguentine
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Depends how much you like to suffer.\n\nNormally, your body turns ethanol (the active ingredient in alcoholic bevarages) into acetate--better known as the main ingredient in vinegar...\n\nWith metronidazole, the final step to acetate is blocked, and you get acetaldehyde--an ingredient in embalming fluid.\n\nThe serum half-life of metronidazole is about 8 hours, but can be longer in some folks.  Minimum wait is 5 half-lives, or two days give or take, but many people need longer.\n\nI'd wait the four days.  Believe me, you mix metronidazole and booze, you'll feel like you're going to die, and probably wish you would.  Might even manage it.
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Tylenol\n\nBufferin® Extra Strength\n\nhttp://www.novartis.com/consumerhealth/OTC/Bufferin.shtml
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Just for the record, I am against the death penalty.\n\nThe drugs are administered, in this order:\n\n    * Anesthetic - Sodium thiopental, which has the trademark name Pentothal, puts the inmate into a deep sleep. This drug is a barbiturate that induces general anesthesia when administered intravenously. It can reach effective clinical concentrations in the brain within 30 seconds, according to an Amnesty International report. For surgical operations, patients are given a dose of 100 to 150 milligrams over a period of 10 to 15 seconds. For executions, as many as 5 grams (5,000 mg) of Pentothal may be administered. This in itself is a lethal dose. It's believed by some that after this anesthetic is delivered, the inmate doesn't feel anything.\n\n    * Saline solution flushes the intravenous line.\n\n    * Paralyzing agent - Pancuronium bromide, also known as Pavulon, is a muscle relaxant that is given in a dose that stops breathing by paralyzing the diaphragm and lungs. Conventionally, this drug takes effect in one to three minutes after being injected. In many states, this drug is given in doses of up to 100 milligrams, a much higher dose than is used in surgical operations -- usually 40 to 100 micrograms per one kilogram of body weight. Other chemicals that can be used as a paralyzing agent include tubocurarine chloride and succinylcholine chloride.\n\n    * Saline solution flushes the intravenous line.\n\n    * Toxic agent (not used by all states) - Potassium chloride is given at a lethal dose in order to interrupt the electrical signaling essential to heart functions. This induces cardiac arrest. \n\nWithin a minute or two after the last drug is administered, a physician or medical technician declares the inmate dead. The amount of time between when the prisoner leaves the holding cell and when he or she is declared dead may be just 30 minutes. Death usually occurs anywhere from five to 18 minutes after the execution order is given. After the execution, the body is placed in a body bag and taken to medical examiner, who may perform an autopsy. It is then either claimed by the inmate's family or interred by the state.
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a lethal dose is too damn many
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BUSPIRONE....\n\nNone.
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oints of Interest:\n\n1.) TRIPLE MAXIMUM LETHAL DOSE EVEN FOR SEVERE ADDICTS: At least three days after his death, Kurt Cobain's blood contained 1.52 milligrams of morphine per litre (mg/L) plus traces of a "diazepam-like" substance. This level is widely known to represent three times the lethal dose of heroin, but it is not commonly understood that this level is three times the lethal dose even for severe heroin addicts. Generally, a blood morphine level of 0.5mg/L is caused by 75 mg - 80 mg of heroin, the established maximum lethal dose, even for severe addicts. A blood level of 1.52 mg/L generally indicates an original dose of approximately 225 mg - 240 mg of heroin.\n\n2.) INCAPACITATED OR DEAD BEFORE GUNSHOT: Large overdoses of heroin by heroin addicts are a phenomenon which is well understood. Research clearly shows that an overdose in the range of that received by Cobain would lead to immediate and complete incapacitation and/or immediate death.\n\n3.) OTHER FACTORS ENSURED OVERDOSE LETHALITY: The 1.52 mg/L blood morphine level does not compensate for the presence of diazepam, or Cobain's low body weight, both of which are well proven to substantially increase the lethality of the heroin.\n\n4.) CASE UNPARALLELED IN SUICIDE & OVERDOSE REPORTS: A review of 3586 suicides, including 760 violent suicides, shows no case involving both a gun and narcotic overdose of any kind, supporting theories regarding the absence or extreme rarity of violent suicide among addicts.\n\n5.) CASE CONSISTENT WITH HOMICIDE PATTERNS: A review of cases involving homicides shows many similarities with patterns in the Cobain case.\n\n6.) OTHER EVIDENCE INDICATES HOMICIDE: Officially acknowledged evidence exists which indicates the possibility of homicide, including a misleading missing persons report, postmortem credit card usage, handwriting discrepancies on the "suicide" note, and the lack of legible fingerprints on the weapon. It appears the police were prejudicially in favour of a suicide ruling, and that the coroner was involved in a conflict of interest predisposing him towards this major discrepancy in the evaluation of his findings.\n\n7.) CONCLUSION: HOMICIDE: The evidence indicates that a massive intravenous dose of heroin, and possibly a benzodiazepine, was administered to Cobain. The final of the two known injections incapacitated and/or killed Cobain, and the gunshot is evidence of a homicide staged to look like a suicide. The case should be re-opened by an independent investigatory body.\n\nSource(s):\nwwww.justiceforkurtcobain.com
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I assume you meant epinephrine. Regardless, lidocaine/epinephrine injections, such as AstraZeneca's Xylocaine, should only be administered by a medical professional. He/she will know where the drug can and cannot be administered. I am not a physician nor a clinician. Therefore, I am not going to give medical advice. However, the information below (all obtained from Xylocaine's Prescribing Information) should answer your question:\n\nFor normal healthy adults, the individual maximum recommended dose of lidocaine HCl with epinephrine should not exceed 7 mg/kg (3.5 mg/lb) of body weight, and in general it is recommended that the maximum total dose not exceed 500 mg.\n\nXylocaine (lidocaine HCl) Injections are indicated for production of local or regional anesthesia by infiltration techniques such as percutaneous injection and intravenous regional anesthesia by peripheral nerve block techniques such as brachial plexus and intercostal and by central neural techniques such as lumbar and caudal epidural blocks.\n\nXYLOCAINE INJECTIONS FOR INFILTRATION AND NERVE BLOCK SHOULD BE EMPLOYED ONLY BY CLINICIANS WHO ARE WELL VERSED IN DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF DOSE-RELATED TOXICITY AND OTHER ACUTE EMERGENCIES THAT MIGHT ARISE FROM THE BLOCK TO BE EMPLOYED AND THEN ONLY AFTER ENSURING THE IMMEDIATE AVAILABILITY OF OXYGEN, OTHER RESUSCITATIVE DRUGS, CARDIOPULMONARY EQUIPMENT AND THE PERSONNEL NEEDED FOR PROPER MANAGEMENT OF TOXIC REACTIONS AND RELATED EMERGENCIES. DELAY IN PROPER MANAGEMENT OF DOSE-RELATED TOXICITY, UNDERVENTILATION FROM ANY CAUSE AND/OR ALTERED SENSITIVITY MAY LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ACIDOSIS, CARDIAC ARREST AND, POSSIBLY, DEATH.\n\nTo avoid intravascular injection, aspiration should be performed before the local anesthetic solution is injected. The needle must be repositioned until no return of blood can be elicited by aspiration. Note, however, that the absence of blood in the syringe does not guarantee that intravascular injection has been avoided.\n\nLocal anesthetic solutions containing antimicrobial preservatives, (eg, methylparaben) should not be used for epidural or spinal anesthesia because the safety of these agents has not been established with regard to intrathecal injection, either intentional or accidental.\n\nXylocaine with epinephrine solutions contain sodium metabisulfite, a sulfite that may cause allergic-type reactions including anaphylactic symptoms and life-threatening or less severe asthmatic episodes in certain susceptible people. The overall prevalence of sulfite sensitivity in the general population is unknown and probably low. Sulfite sensitivity is seen more frequently in asthmatic than in non-asthmatic people.
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injections are usually things that would be killed by the hydrochloric acid in the stomach, such as a weakened form of a virus which is a vaccination.
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As a part of our police duties in a small town, I helped with animal control,  the drugs used in the tranquillizer gun is prescribed and you will not get it without a licence or having proper authority to have them.\n\nAlso the mix of drugs and getting the dose right is very hard.\nand different for various animals, dog has one type, cat another.  ( and for some you mix the two very carefully)\n\nOne mistake and you have a dead animal.
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Ether.  Ether was used as a general anesthetic for surgery for decades.  It's also commonly available in aerosol form as deisel starting fluid.\n\nNote that it would take several seconds of concentrated exposure in order to produce unconsciousness.  A quick whiff wouldn't do the job.  Also, it's very easy to overdose on ether.  You could accidentally kill your subject very easily.\n\nFumous chloroform do the job more effectively and more safely, but it's a highly restricted chemical.  The user would also have to take precautions to ensure that they didn't inhale the vapor while delivering it.
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Interferon beta (Avonex, Betaseron, and Rebif). \nGlatiramer acetate (Copaxone). \nMitoxantrone (Novantrone).
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True. I've never heard of anyone killing someone over Ibuprofen or Centrum Silver. What's your point exactly?
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The electric chair is no longer in use. Executions these days are carried out by lethal injection.