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Methaqualone is a hypnotic sedative.It was sold under the brand names Quaalude (/ ˈ k w eɪ l uː d / KWAY-lood) and Sopor among others, which contained 300 mg of methaqualone, and sold as a combination drug under the brand name Mandrax, which contained 250 mg methaqualone and 25 mg diphenhydramine within the same tablet, mostly in Europe.
Methaqualone: 1984 South Africa (1971), India (1984), United Nations (1971–1988) Withdrawn because of risk of addiction and overdose [33] [34] Metipranolol: 1990 UK, others Uveitis. [3] Metofoline: 1965 US Unspecific experimental toxicity. [3] Mibefradil: 1998 European Union, Malaysia, US, others Fatal arrhythmia, drug interactions. [2] [3 ...
A 70-year-old Boca Raton woman said she sold Quaaludes to 'successful people in her community' for a decade. A federal drug raid brought it to an end.
[167] [168] The drug name "Quaalude" (methaqualone) is a portmanteau, combining the words "quiet interlude". Methaqualone was discontinued in the United States in 1985, mainly due to its psychological addictiveness, widespread abuse, and illegal recreational use. Nonbenzodiazepines and benzodiazepines are now used to treat insomnia instead.
Schedule I put it on par, legally, with heroin, LSD, quaaludes and ecstasy, among others. Biden, a Democrat, supports legalizing medical marijuana for use “where appropriate, consistent with ...
Tuinal was the brand name of a discontinued combination drug composed of two barbiturate sodium salts (secobarbital and amobarbital) in equal proportions. Tuinal was introduced as a sedative-hypnotic (sleeping pill) medication in the late 1940s by Eli Lilly. It was also used in obstetrics for childbirth.
A category for drugs withdrawn from the market after marketing commenced for any reason (voluntarily or involuntarily). For drug candidates that were abandoned prior to being marketed due to side effects, lack of efficacy, superior competitors, or other reasons, see Category:Abandoned drugs
Production of glutethimide was discontinued in the US in 1993 and in several eastern European countries, most notably Hungary, in 2006. Analysis of confiscated glutethimide seems to invariably show the drug or the results of attempted synthesis, whereas purported methaqualone is in a significant majority of cases found to be inert, or contain ...