Atropine is a poison, but in smaller doses will have positive pharmacological effects on the body.
These include global-positioning devices, the drug atropine and seven-inch hypodermic needles, used to inject atropine to resuscitate heart-attack victims.
Hussein's attempt to purchase vast quantities of atropine and colloidal silicon dioxide should sound an alarm for all of us.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Non-Triumph of Hope over Experience
Dr Jumaa Samadi, who treated them, says they were all given decontamination showers and atropine to treat their symptoms before being sent to a hospital in Turkey.
Finally the medic warned us that if we used the atropine without breathing nerve gas (the equivalent of no bear at all), the atropine itself would kill us.
The drug atropine allows the body to manage the excess acetylcholine, and the AtroPen injection device that can deliver it has been used by the U.S. Department of Defense since 1959.
It contained a dose of morphine for breakthrough pain or shortness of breath, Ativan for anxiety attacks, Compazine for nausea, Haldol for delirium, Tylenol for fever, and atropine for drying up the upper-airway rattle that people can get in their final hours.
Reading Fisher's counsel on how to achieve this feat, I was reminded of my time in the Marine Corps when the medic explained the uses of the caked tube of atropine kept in a back pocket of our cartridge belts as a remedy for a nerve gas attack.
Reports that Saddam Hussein has ordered 1.25 million doses of the chemical-weapons antidote atropine, as well as colloidal silicon dioxide, which can be used to make "dusty" chemical arms capable of penetrating U.S. protective gear, came as a shock to many Americans, but probably for the wrong reason.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Non-Triumph of Hope over Experience
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