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The drugs most commonly abused by anesthesiologists

• Fentanyl ( 100 times more potent than morphine). • Sufentanil ( 1,000 times more potent than morphine). • Meperidine ( Demerol). • Hydromorphine ( Dilaudid) ( five times more potent than morphine). • Propofol — used as induction agent ( to induce a state of general anesthesia) as a single dose, or to maintain a state of general anesthesia if given as an infusion. • Inhaled agents that induce a state of general anesthesia and can be used to maintain that state so long as they are breathed in. • Oral benzodiazepines, such as Valium or intravenous ones such as midazolam, are used to reduce pre- operative anxiety and produce “anterograde amnesia” ( so the patient won’t remember what happened after they were put under).