Barbituates

Barbiturate. Now where would you think of a name like that? Legend has it that this drug was derived when a 29 year old research assistant, Adolph von Baeyer, was working in his Belgian laboratory in 1863 when he took the condensation of malonic acid and combined it with Urea. Von Baeyer went downtown to a local pub to celebrate where some army officers where celebrating Feast Day of Saint Barbara. So he took the name Barbara …

…tranquilizers, sleeping pills, anti-convulsants, anesthetics, and psychiatric help, I believe that they should be a Class A drug which means that they cannot be used at all, even if they are prescribed. They are too many things that could go wrong, such as overdose or the withdrawal symptoms. Either way what usually happens to barbiturate addicts is that they get prescribed a legal dosage and then get addicted and start buying it on the streets.