left Medical Typical applications for<unk>  are sedative, short term hypnotic, preanesthetic, insomnia treatment, and control of convulsions in emergencies. Abbott Pharmaceutical discontinued manufacture of their Nembutal brand of<unk>  capsules in 1999, largely replaced by the benzodiazepine family of drugs.<unk>  was also widely abused, known on the street as "yellow jackets". They were available as 30, 50, and 100-milligram capsules of yellow, white-orange, and yellow colors, respectively. It is also used as a veterinary anesthetic agent.<unk>  can reduce intracranial pressure in Reye's syndrome, treat traumatic brain injury and induce coma in cerebral ischemia patients.<unk> -induced coma has been advocated in patients with acute liver failure refractory to mannitol. Euthanasia<unk>  can cause death when used in high doses. It is used for euthanasia for humans as well as animals. It is taken alone, or in combination with complementary agents such as phenytoin, in commercial animal euthanasia injectable solutions.<unk>  Sodium (CAS No. 57-33-0) In the Netherlands, it is part of the standard protocol for physician-assisted suicide for self-administration by the patient. It is taken by mouth for physician-assisted death in the United States states of Oregon, Washington, Vermont, and California (as of January, 2016). The oral dosage of<unk>  indicated for physician-assisted suicide in Oregon is typically 10 g of liquid. In Switzerland, sodium<unk>  is administered intravenously by patient. When administered intravenously, patient falls into sleep within 30 seconds, and heart stops beating within 3 minutes. Execution<unk>  has been used or considered as a substitute for other drugs previously used for capital punishment in the United States when those drugs are unavailable. Such use however is illegal under Danish law, and when this was discovered, after public outcry in Danish media, Lundbeck, the owner of the drug, stopped selling it to US states that impose the death penalty. US distributors of the drug are forbidden by the owner to sell it to any customers, such as state authorities, that practice or participate in executions of humans. Texas began using<unk>  for executing death-row inmates by lethal injection on July 18, 2012. The use of<unk>  has been considered by several states, including Ohio, Arizona, Idaho, and Washington; those states made the decision to switch following shortages of pancuronium bromide, a muscle paralytic previously used as one component in a three-drug cocktail. In October 2013, Missouri changed its protocol to allow for compounded<unk>  to be used in a lethal dose for executions. It was first used in November 2013. According to a December 2019 ProPublica article, by 2017 the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), in discussion with then Attorney General Jeff Sessions, had begun to search for suppliers of<unk>  to be used in lethal injections. The BOP was aware that the use of<unk>  as their "new drug choice" would be challenged in the courts because some lawyers had said that<unk>  would flood prisoners’ lungs with froth and foam, inflicting pain and terror akin to a death by drowning." BOP claimed that these concerns were unjustified and that their two expert witnesses asserted that the use of<unk>  was "humane". On July 25, 2019, US Attorney General William Barr directed the federal government to resume capital punishment after 16 years. The drug of choice for these executions was<unk> .
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