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• n  a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative

• As the San Diego medical examiner reported, the cultists died in three groups: a first round of 15, then the next 15, then seven, all apparently by ingesting phenobarbital mixed .
• In youngsters, phenobarbital may do more harm than good .
• In large doses, phenobarbital, like other sedatives, may prove fatal.

• sodium thiopental
• phenobarbitone
• Luminal
• purple heart