secobarbital
Sign in to saveSecobarbital, sold under the brand name Seconal among others, is a short-acting barbiturate drug originally used for the treatment of insomnia. It was patented by Eli Lilly and Company in 1934 in the United States. It possesses anesthetic, anticonvulsant, anxiolytic, sedative, and hypnotic properties. In the United Kingdom, it was known as quinalbarbitone. Secobarbital is considered to be an obsolete sedative-hypnotic (sleeping pill) and has largely been replaced by the benzodiazepine family. It was widely abused, known on the street as "red devils" or "reds." Among barbiturates, secobarbital
Key facts
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- Barbiturate
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- 458777042
- Drug.IUPAC_name
- (RS)-5-(pentan-2-yl)-5-(prop-2-en-1-yl)-1,3-diazinane-2,4,6-trione
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- Secobarbital.svg
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- 210
- Drug.tradename
- Seconal, others
- Drug.MedlinePlus
- a682386
- Drug.pregnancy_category
- D (United States)
- Drug.legal_BR
- B1
- Drug.legal_CA
- Schedule IV
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- Anlage III
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Article
11 sectionsContents
- Uses
- Medical
- Recreational and lethal use
- Assisted dying
- Adverse effects
- Withdrawal
- Availability
- Secobarbital sodium
- See also
- References
- External links
Secobarbital, sold under the brand name Seconal among others, is a short-acting barbiturate drug originally used for the treatment of insomnia. It was patented by Eli Lilly and Company in 1934 in the United States. It possesses anesthetic, anticonvulsant, anxiolytic, sedative, and hypnotic properties. In the United Kingdom, it was known as quinalbarbitone. Secobarbital is considered to be an obsolete sedative-hypnotic (sleeping pill) and has largely been replaced by the benzodiazepine family. It was widely abused, known on the street as "red devils" or "reds." Among barbiturates, secobarbital carries a particularly high risk of abuse and addiction, which is largely responsible for it falling out of use.
==Uses== ===Medical=== Secobarbital is used for managing symptoms of epilepsy and for short-term treatment of insomnia. It is also used as a preoperative medication to produce anesthesia and anxiolysis for short surgical, diagnostic, or therapeutic procedures which are minimally painful.