Scully tells Mulder the FBI's toxicology report on the severed arm showed traces of a drug called acepromazine, which she says is unusual and should not be found in a human because it is an animal tranquilizer. While Acepromazine is mainly used to sedate animals prior to painful procedures like suturing, or to help calm them down prior to being put under anesthesia, it is also still used in humans on rare occasions. Acepromazine was first developed in the 1950's and was one of the first antipsychotic medications, though it fell out of frequent use when more effective antipsychotics like chlorpromazine (which is a closely related analog of acepromazine) were developed shortly after; its use in humans declined even further after the development of atypical antipsychotics like clozapine in the 1970's, which were more effective and much safer. However acepromazine is still available for human use, though its use is rare, it typically is only used in humans that do not respond well to modern atypical antipsychotics or have an allergy to them.

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X-Files - Voglio crederci (2008)

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