There were five positive readings for
barbiturates.
At the July 2018 meeting of the Texas Board of Nursing (Board), the Board voted unanimously to adopt guidelines related to the responsible prescribing of controlled substances, including opioids, benzodiazepines,
barbiturates, and carisoprodol.
Drug use in mothers of affected babies included opioids among 81% (including methadone for 70%); heroin, 42%; cocaine, 29%; marijuana, 26%; benzodiazepines, 18%; buprenorphine, 6%; and
barbiturates, 2%.
Since most of the concerns of using drugs for capital punishment involve problems - including an artificial scarcity - with drugs which are injected, an obvious alternative would be for states to simply use pills rather than injections to administer drugs such as
barbiturates, whose lethal properties are well controlled, well known, and very clearly established, as noted in a Slate article entitled "How Does Assisted Suicide Work?"
Two classes of CNS depressants have the potential for misuse, abuse, and addiction: benzodiazepines and
barbiturates.
Summary: A series of NN-dimethyl-arylidene
barbiturates 1-22 has been re-synthesized and evaluated against a number of Gram-positive Gram-negative bacteria and some fungal strains.
The probe concluded that she had killed herself with an overdose of
barbiturates and alcohol.
Cannabis, amphetamines and
barbiturates are already Class B drugs.