How to Use scopolamine in a Sentence

scopolamine

noun

• At the time, a drug called scopolamine was widely used as an anaesthetic for childbirth.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2021
• Of course, pollination is slightly hazardous work when your food of choice is laced with scopolamine.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2020
• Justify has tested positive for scopolamine, a drug found in jimson weed.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2020
• So when a person takes, say, a high dose of the motion sickness drug scopolamine — which blocks the effects of acetylcholine — things start to go awry.
  — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 22 Oct. 2025
• Did other horses in his barn test positive for scopolamine and at similar levels?
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2019
• It is usually used in the form of scopolamine or commonly burundanga.
  — Jd Linville, Variety, 5 Nov. 2021
• Morphine reduced the pain, and scopolamine ensured that the patient forgot any discomfort that did occur.
  — Joe and Teresa Graedon, oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2023
• Prescription preventions like scopolamine patches work well, too.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2023
• The doctors began to suspect he had been drugged with a substance called scopolamine, also known as Devil’s Breath.
  — Mattha Busby, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2026
• Note that scopolamine is generally not available for sale in Latin America.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2023
• Baffert has claimed that the small amounts of scopolamine found in Justify were due to jimson weed contaminating his feed supply.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2020
• By then, Fernández was sure Mark had been drugged with scopolamine — no other drugs have such grave and particular effects.
  — Mattha Busby, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2026
• Most equine medical experts believe that scopolamine is not a performance enhancing substance.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2020
• Though he’s never been drugged with scopolamine, he was sedated with benzodiazepines and robbed several years ago, and has devoted much of his channel to warning tourists about the risks.
  — Mattha Busby, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2026
• Atropine and scopolamine, powerful hallucinogens, can be found in plants in the nightshade family, among them mandrake, henbane and thorn apple.
  — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• The Times reported the racing board changed the penalty for scopolamine use in October 2018.
  — Steve Almasy and Faith Karimi, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019
• There have been 34 alkaloids discovered in henbane, including scopolamine, hyoscyamine and atropine.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2022
• Doctors use atropine to reduce saliva during surgery, and to accelerate the heart rate when needed, and scopolamine protects against post-surgery nausea and vomiting.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
• An autopsy of her body revealed large amounts of scopolamine, an anti-nausea medication that can also be used to incapacitate someone.
  — Liz Brody, Glamour, 7 May 2018
• When Ana is drugged by her dealer with scopolamine and overdoses, Matias must balance a journey back to her through either revenge or shamanic ritual.
  — Jd Linville, Variety, 5 Nov. 2021
• Drugs like scopolamine, while useful, also have serious side effects, particularly drowsiness.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Nov. 2018
• Atropine and scopolamine are powerful deliriants that can produce hallucinations and out-of-body experiences.
  — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• The flower contains the alkaloids scopolamine and atropine, which are considered an entheogen—a psychoactive compound used in a spiritual context.
  — David Shultz, Science | AAAS, 23 Nov. 2020
• Motion sickness patches containing scopolamine, an anti-nausea medication, are not approved for children.
  — Marnie Hanel, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• But the police also caution that many stories involving scopolamine verge on urban legend, and confirm that most criminals use other sedative drugs to manipulate their victims.
  — Mattha Busby, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2026
• Physicians observed people under the effects of scopolamine become particularly candid.
  — Mattha Busby, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2026
• Justify's trainer Bob Baffert received notification that the horse had tested positive for scopolamine.
  — Robert Rimpson, The Courier-Journal, 12 Sep. 2019
• California regulators concede that no other horse at Santa Anita tested for a level of scopolamine as high as Justify’s.
  — Joe Drape, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• By the 1920s, the majority of laboring women were isolated in hospital wards and given morphine and scopolamine, an amnesiac.
  — Jennifer Block, Longreads, 10 Mar. 2020
• Using a technique called mass spectrometry, Robinson and his colleagues studied the chemical composition of four of the bundles and found the compounds scopolamine and atropine—the same chemical mixture that’s found in datura.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2020