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As the TD was developed, so concurrently was the antidote. The men who plied Pichugin with coffee could have taken the antidote in advance, so they could safely drink from the same glasses. As an FSB veteran himself, Pichugin should have spotted the dangers.
That a truth drug was used on a man in custody shows that the FSB was not interested in proof of Pichugin's guilt. Any confession obtained in this way and anything said was unlawful and therefore inadmissible in court. So the FSB was after something entirely different, information that could be used against Yukos.
How does a truth drug work? After taking it, the victim begins to "sing". He cannot resist answering the questions put to him. But, being in a kind of suspended animation, he can only answer within very narrow confines. The easiest type of answer he can give is a simple Yes or No. So it's vital for his interrogators to draw up beforehand a list of what they want to know, in a way that will elicit simple and straightforward replies. For example, if you ask a man under a TD to describe a document or give directions from one place to another, the chances are he will be unable to do so and will become confused. On top of this, the answers depend entirely on the victim's internal convictions. If he tells you that the Volga flows into the Don and not into the Caspian, then that is what he believes. Nothing more, nothing less.
The time available for questioning is limited, so the dose has to be calculated in advance in line with the victim's body mass and health. Overdo it, and you have a dead body. Underdo it, and you get no result. The substance is highly toxic, so it has to be neutralised before too long with an antidote given in coffee or intravenously. Remember how on the morning after, Pichugin discovered traces of injections on his hands. We can only guess what was in the filters of the cigarettes they were giving him.
The victim then enters a deep narcotic slumber, from which he emerges slowly with consciousness returning and then slipping away again. Remember how Aleksey felt three days after the event - he must have been given a hefty dose.
Having come to, the victim has no recollection from the moment the substance began its effect. The interrogators usually tell him he had too much to drink. The feeling the next day, with the TD still in the bloodstream, resembles a monster hangover or the after effects of alcohol poisoning.
Remember the story told by Pichugin's lawyers. It's extraordinarily similar to this picture. And this course of events also gives a simple explanation as to why the FSB men appeared so suddenly during Pichugin's questioning. A murder case, after all, is a matter purely for prosecutors. And the FSB will never share the secrets of its truth drugs with them, not to mention their sworn enemies in the police.
The use of a truth drug against one's own citizens in the course of a routine criminal investigation can only be explained by the particular political circumstances driving the attack on Yukos. A routine murder suspect would not be put in Lefortovo, nor would he be introduced to men in blue caps with spiked coffee.
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