Scopolamine, otherwise known as the Devil's Breath, has been used for robberies and rapes. Although Scopolamine has a dark history of pain and murder, its applications in the 21th century is being used for the benefits of society because this substance has the potential to solve many problems that other drugs cannot. It is currently being used or tested to be used as a sea sickness cure, sleep inducer, and truth serum.
Scopolamine allows someone to lose their sense of free will, and becomes almost like a zombie. A person heavily under the influence will have no choice but to do whatever they are told without exception. Making things even worse, the user will have no memory of any of the events that take place while he/she is under the influence. This is because Scopolamine is a drug that prevents the first stage of creating memories, which is called memory encoding. This prevents memories from being made and induces a state of consciousness where one cannot refuse to do anything. However, in smaller doses, many of these effects can be used for beneficial uses. Currently, there is a product that uses scopolamine to remove sea sickness for around three days.
This product has Transdermal Scopolamine, and it is a circular flat patch designed for continuous release of scopolamine over the course of 3 days. This is called the travel patch and it is clinically proven to help prevent motion sickness. Due to the very low dosage amounts (approximately 1.0 mg over 3 days), many of the effects that are associated to being heavily under the influence of Scopolamine is not visible. Though it needs to be prescribed by a doctor, like most drugs, this is one of the many beneficial uses of scopolamine.
Scopolamine has also been used to induce a twilight sleep, which is an amnesic condition that is characterized by the inability to feel pain without losing consciousness, during childbirth. By doing this, the mothers suffered less from labor pains. However, many experienced memory loss after giving birth, so it is not used at this time. Though this is not a usable drug currently, it could be used to develop a drug in which women can give birth painlessly.
The last effect that can be used is the inability to tell a lie while under the influence. Many have sought for a truth serum throughout history, and here is a substance that can induce a state of consciousness where the person does not have the free will to deny the truth. The CIA have used and tested Scopolamine and has concluded that a patient under the influence of scopolamine cannot create a lie. Many problems that lack truth, such as Guantanamo bay, where they torture captives for informations, could potentially be solved with the usage of Scopolamine. Though it has been used for deadly applications through robberies and rapes in the past, scientists can potentially create a working truth serum to be used for the benefits of society.
Scopolamine has been used for the wrong reasons for far too long when it could be used for the good of the people. The three applications that are stated above are only obvious and beneficial usages for scopolamine. It's about time to see that Scopolamine can be used to benefit the world rather than hurt it.
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