When were barbiturates banned?
Score: 4.6/5 (69 votes) Between the 1920s and the mid-1950s, practically the only drugs used as sedatives and hypnotics were barbiturates (LehmannandBan1970).When did they stop prescribing barbiturates?Legal status. In the late 1950s and 1960s, there was an increase in reports of barbiturate overdos...