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Beyond the Myths: What is sleeping gas called in pharmacology?

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Hollywood has long popularized the idea of a fast-acting 'sleeping gas' that instantly incapacitates victims. In reality, the concept of a universally effective, safe, and quickly deployable "sleeping gas" is fiction. Medical science instead uses carefully controlled inhaled anesthetics, so what is sleeping gas called in the real world?