Fun fact: the spooks in the government have tried for decades to create a truth serum, but nothing they come up with outperforms alcohol. They do have stronger stuff, but they also cause vivid hallucinations or make you loopy as fuck, and there’s not much use in interrogating someone who currently believes they have knife hands or are Jesus Christ himself. Alcohol leaves you pretty much lucid no matter how sloshed you get, even if you end up blackout drunk.