July 23, 2006 - 9:23pm
Can anyone get me information on quaaludes and their history? From my belief they were taken off the market, but are they still being sold under a different name? and are they avalible in other countries? what's the history of them--when did they come out etc.
Thanks
July 24, 2006 - 5:18am
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Methaqualone was discovered
Methaqualone was discovered by the Indian researcher M. L. Gujiral in 1955 during an anti-malaria research program. It was marketed as a sleeping pill during the 1960s under a number of tradenames including Renoval and Melsed and in combination with an antihistamine as Mandrax. From 1965 it was sold on the U.S. market as Quaalude, Sopor and Parest, by 1972 it was the sixth most popular sedative in the US.
With its addictive nature clear, it was withdrawn from many developed markets in the 1980s, being made a Schedule I drug in the US in 1984. Up until the fall of Nicolae Ceauşescu's Communist regime in the early 1990s, methaqualone (along with other sedatives) was used to pacify orphans in Romania's state-run orphanage system. Internationally, Methaqualone is a Schedule II drug under the Convention on Psychotropic Substances. [1]
it is produced in other parts of the world as a legitimate pharmaceutical. It is available by prescription in Canada
Except from Wikipedia
Methaqualone is a non traditional 5,5 barbituric acid analogue. It came out about the same time as Noludar when scientists were attempting to find other sedatives that wouldnt be a death sentence as barbiturates were causing a great many accidental overdose deaths.
The famed Roher 714's came off the market about 1982 and have not been seen since. Some report that they still make the Mandrax that were popular in Mexico, but I doubt it. Essentially the discovery of chlordiazepoxide (Librium) and the birth of the benzodiazepines totally eliminated the market for these type of sedative hypnotic drugs. I suppose we can thank LaHoffman Roche for that.
Valium was soon to follow and it was over from there, doctors began taking their patients off barbs and putting them on safer medications that worked on the same GABA receptors.
cited from the ETFRC Volumes, Dr. Albert Hoffman
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