Barbiturates
Timeline
| Dec 4, 1863 | Barbituric acid is discovered by Belgian researcher Adolf von Baeyer. His discovery came on the day of St. Barbara, so he chose the name "barbiturate" as a combination of St. Barbara and "urea". 1 | |
| 1903 | Barbitone, the first medicinal barbiturate, is synthesized from barbituric acid by German scientists Emil Hermann Fischer and Joseph von Mering. It was marketed under the trade name Veronal. 1 | |
| 1912 | Phenobarbital is introduced under the trade name Luminal as a sedative-hypnotic. 1 | |
| 1950s - 1960s | Reports increase about side effects and dependence related to barbiturates. | |
| 1970 | Pentobarbital (II), secobarbital (II), amobarbital (II), butabarbital (III), phenobarbital (IV), and barbital (IV) are all scheduled with the passage of the U.S. Drug Abuse Regulation and Control Act of 1970. |
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