A Russian citizen " had been apprehended by the Russian militia, registered at a clinic as a'suspected lesbian,'and forced to undergo treatment for lesbianism, such as'sedative drugs'and hypnosis . " The Ninth Circuit held that the conversion treatments to which Pitcherskaia had been subjected constituted mental and physical torture.
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Thalidomide, the sedative drug that caused horrendous birth defects in the'60s before it was banned by the Food and Drug Administration, is being used to treat multiple myeloma, a painful and deadly cancer of the plasma cells, a type of white blood cell found in many tissues of the body but primarily in the bone marrow.
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A Russian citizen " had been apprehended by the Russian militia, registered at a clinic as a'suspected lesbian,'and forced to undergo treatment for lesbianism, such as'sedative drugs'and hypnosis . . . . The Ninth Circuit held that the conversion treatments to which Pitcherskaia had been subjected constituted mental and physical torture.
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The Porton Down analysis by James R . Riches and his colleagues, Analysis of Clothing and Urine from Moscow Theatre Siege Casualties Reveals Carfentanil and Remifentanil Use, showed that while fentanyl or 3-methyl fentanyl were absent from the urine of one survivor and residues of the agent in the clothing of two other British survivors, the veterinary large animal sedative drug carfentanil and anesthetic agent remifentanil were identified by liquid chromatographic tandem mass spectrometry in one hostage's urine and on the clothing of three hostages who had returned to Britain after the hostage rescue.
