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When the Soviet Union fell, lots of military first-aid kits escaped in the wild. Some of them (small plastic ones colored in bright orange IIRC) contained this thing:

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Апрофен

(sorry, you'll have to rely on Google Translate, there's very little info on it in English)

It's a powerful anticholinergic agent used to treat poisoning by organophosphorus compounds (like Sarin).

Like many other anticholinergics (including Datura), if taken without first actually experiencing the poisoning, it results in a deep delirium with complete loss of control over one's actions. There are lots of interesting/disturbing stories out there on the internet, most of them written in late 1990s to early 2000s before all the stockpiles had been found and used up.

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