| In the early 1940s, it became customary to anaesthetize patients with barbiturate injections. |
| A wheelchair-bound paraplegic in constant pain sipped, through a straw, some water containing the barbiturate. |
| Oklahoma turned to pentobarbital, another barbiturate, but this drug also became hard to locate. |
| Pentobarbital, a short-acting barbiturate, has also been used for pre-medication in anaesthesia. |
| If Nozinan is administered with a barbiturate or narcotic, the doses of the latter must be reduced by at least one-half. |
| The third measure, polydrug use, is the sum of hallucinogen, amphetamine, barbiturate, cocaine, and heroin use. |
