A term used to describe a pharmacological agent that purportedly increases the willingness of a person to tell the truth (also called TRUTH SERUM). It has its origins in the early part of the twentieth century, when it was believed that administering a...

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A truth drug (or truth serum) is a drug used for the purposes of obtaining accurate information from an unwilling subject, most often by a police, intelligence, or military organization on a prisoner. It has been reported that "truth drugs" have been...