OT - name that gass

[General Pain]

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

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