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Originally Posted by Canadian Army
According to the article; The Moscow Theatre Hostage Crisis: Incapacitants and Chemical Warfare; written by the Chemical and Biological Weapons Non-Proliferation Program.
"…Russian special police units resorted to using an incapacitating gas based on the drug fentanyl to end the crisis."
The full article can be found here: http://cns.miis.edu/stories/02110b.htm
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I probably should have guessed it would be fentanyl-based - my dad works as a MD (anesthisia) and told me the strongest they had was remifentanil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remifentanil