You better go easy on that stuff," with Mattie replying, "Wyatt, leave me alone..."
In the film From Hell (2001), Inspector Abberline is a user of laudanum, and Jack the Ripper also uses laudanum for making his victims sleepy. In the TV series Deadwood, the town doctor recommends laudanum several times, bringing a bottle of it to a patient. Initially in the series, Alma Garrett is an addict to laudanum. Trixie is a former addict. In Dan Simmonss novel Drood (2009) the narrator Wilkie Collins takes laudanum daily to alleviate a wide variety of pains as well as to induce sleep. In the horror video-game Amnesia: The Dark Descent (2010), laudanum can be found at several places in the castle, and can be used to regain health. In the role-playing video-game Darkest Dungeon (2016), laudanum is a provision that is used to cure Horror, a stress-over-time negative effect. The role of laudanum is revisited in Darkest Dungeon 2. In the browser-based role-playing video game Fallen London, the main character can take laudanum to decrease Nightmares, a negative stat, at the cost of increasing Wounds, another negative stat. In Eleanor Cattons novel The Luminaries (2013), and the subsequent TV adaptation (2020), many characters are addicted to laudanum and it is used to murder Crosbie Wells. In Sara Collins novel The Confessions of Frannie Langton (2019), the titular character becomes addicted to laudanum. In the film The Highwaymen (2019), Bonnie Parker (Emily Brobst) of Bonnie and Clyde fame is addicted to laudanum.
History
Phenytoin, in both its acidic and sodium salt forms, is erratically bioavailable whether it is injected or taken orally due to its high melting point, weak acidity, and its being only sparingly soluble in water. Simply putting patients on other drugs is not always an option; this was especially true before 1993, when the number of anticonvulsants available was much more limited. One solution was to develop a prodrug that did not have these drawbacks. Fosphenytoin was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on August 5, 1996, for use in epilepsy. See also
Ethotoin
Hydantoin
Mephenytoin
Phenytoin

References
External links
"Fosphenytoin". Drug Information Portal. U.S. National Library of Medicine. "Fosphenytoin sodium". Drug Information Portal. U.S. National Library of Medicine.