Between Methaqualone and Quaalude
During seventies, Quaalude at first was widely used as sleeping pill for insomnia therapy caused by the sedative effects this drug contributed. Too bad Quaalude was then mistreated.
Quaalude was popular among teenagers and labeled as ‘recreational drug’. Quaalude was known as able to increase euphoria, and Quaalude in that time was used commonly during sexual activity.
As the drug abuse reached its peak, it was connected to overdoses, which urged to suicide attempts, injuries, and car accidents. Respiratory arrest, delirium, kidney or liver damage, coma, and death were the other diseases that may appeared .
Methaqualone is the prominent chemical which was needed to make Quaalude. Methaqualone was first developed in India in the 1950s as an anti-malarial drug. By the mid-60s, U.S. doctors began prescribing Quaalude as a non-addictive alternative to barbiturates.
In South Africa, Methaqualone is commonly known as Mandrax, M-pills or buttons, it is not taken orally but is crushed and mixed in a pipe (or in the neck of a broken bottle) with marijuana.
