Largactil
This post is about a drug I came across on tv programme a drug I had not heard about for about 20 years that drug being Largactil. I recently came across it while watching a tv program about Strangeways where it was called the liquid cosh by the inmates as it was used there to calm them down if they played up. Largactil is a sedative really but has serious side effects so I was really shocked to hear that it was used by the guards to knock inmates out and was surprised that they were allowed to give to inmates in injection form,
I first came across Largactil in the 1980s when I worked in a well to do care home for the elderly in Kew Gardens for a few weeks one summer. Some of the residents had dementia and maybe have been a bit difficult at times so Largactil was given to them to calm them down it was given in liquid form and it did the job I guess it was used in the same manner as the liquid cosh which might have some justification in a prison but not in an elderly people's place. I am sure things have changed since the 1980s well I would hope they have anyway.
The next time I came across Largactil was in the 1990s when I was a volunteer in mental health drop in it was given to some of the people who came to use the place. Largactil or chloraprazine seemed to have a side effect which to me was a positive one really in that it made you photosensitive and you would get suntan pretty quickly I gleaned this in the fact that the folk using it in the centre had a great sun tan all the year round and looked really healthy which was ironic as they had health problems related to their mental state.
I have tried very hard to get a decent sun tan all my life due to vanity I guess I have never succeeded so I thought this might be an option which I guess was a bit extreme. The fact that it made the users of largactil photosensitive, it meant they had to stay out of the sun in summer as they would burn. I wonder if this stuff is still used and who gets it or are their kinds of medicine that are used its a shame the photo sensitivity cannot be harnessed it might help with confidence issues and things but it might damage the holiday industry I guess as folk would not bother going to search for the sun as much and they might go elsewhere for a holiday and go and do something more interesting than just lying around in the sun this might be a consequence of getting the photosensitive out of Largactil.
I first came across Largactil in the 1980s when I worked in a well to do care home for the elderly in Kew Gardens for a few weeks one summer. Some of the residents had dementia and maybe have been a bit difficult at times so Largactil was given to them to calm them down it was given in liquid form and it did the job I guess it was used in the same manner as the liquid cosh which might have some justification in a prison but not in an elderly people's place. I am sure things have changed since the 1980s well I would hope they have anyway.
The next time I came across Largactil was in the 1990s when I was a volunteer in mental health drop in it was given to some of the people who came to use the place. Largactil or chloraprazine seemed to have a side effect which to me was a positive one really in that it made you photosensitive and you would get suntan pretty quickly I gleaned this in the fact that the folk using it in the centre had a great sun tan all the year round and looked really healthy which was ironic as they had health problems related to their mental state.
I have tried very hard to get a decent sun tan all my life due to vanity I guess I have never succeeded so I thought this might be an option which I guess was a bit extreme. The fact that it made the users of largactil photosensitive, it meant they had to stay out of the sun in summer as they would burn. I wonder if this stuff is still used and who gets it or are their kinds of medicine that are used its a shame the photo sensitivity cannot be harnessed it might help with confidence issues and things but it might damage the holiday industry I guess as folk would not bother going to search for the sun as much and they might go elsewhere for a holiday and go and do something more interesting than just lying around in the sun this might be a consequence of getting the photosensitive out of Largactil.
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