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Drugs are increasingly being used in physical interrogation situations, and the former Soviet Union had taken this to an extreme. It is probably the future of interrogation and will need proper safeguards and controls.

There is no such thing as a truth serum. Like alcohol, drugs can lower inhibitions and make a person likely to fall over any cover stories but it can also introduce psychotic episodes or manic lying which can muddle whatever you were asking. A trained resistor or a subject who learns from enduring a few sessions, can resist the effects. Just FYI introduction of drugs or experimenting with coercive drugs on a captive is a war crime.