Los barbitúricos son drogas que actúan como sedantes del sistema nervioso central y por virtud, producen un amplio esquema de efectos, desde sedación suave hasta anestesia. Algunos también se usan como anticonvulsivantes.

En forma endovenosa el Pentothal ha sido el más utilizado para la inducción de la anestesia aunque en los últimos años está siendo desplazado por el Propofol, de vida media más corta.

Algunos los MEZCLAN.

Thanksgiving Prayer

Written and delivered by William S. Burroughs, 1986.

For John Dillinger

In hope he is still alive

Thanks for the wild turkey and the Passenger Pigeons,

destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts —

thanks for a Continent to despoil and poison —

thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger —

thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin, leaving the carcass to rot —



thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes —



thanks for the AMERICAN DREAM to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through —

thanks for the KKK, for nigger-killing lawmen feeling their notches,

for decent church-going women with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces —

thanks for “Kill a Queer for Christ” stickers —

thanks for laboratory AIDS —

thanks for Prohibition and the War Against Drugs —

thanks for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business —

thanks for a nation of finks — yes,

thanks for all the memories… all right, let’s see your arms…

you always were a headache and you always were a bore —

thanks for the last and greatest betrayal,

of the last and greatest of human dreams.