I miss quaaludes

Me too

Americans would be happier if qualuudes were still widely available, rather than Prozac and Adderall.

Americans would be happier if qualuudes were still widely available, rather than Prozac and Adderall.

^Worth repeating.

I feel as if I provoked this thread by making quips about Scotch & Percodan, Bordeaux & Valium. The trick is to not get greedy: just get to a plateau high enough, but where you can still breathe the air, and not hurt yourself if you fall. The combos are whete it's at. Begin with only one drink, and one doll of your choice. If you don't succeed at first, smoke a little grass or hash. Then just STOP, and enjoy the feeling.

I've never had a quaalude but I treasure my benzo prescriptions, so I can only imagine.

Ativan & a Margarita is great too.

G&T with a Klonipin can get pretty close to Quaalude too, if you smoke a little.

One each of the following effectively smooths out the rough edges: Tramadol , Xanax Bar, and a shot of good Irish Whisky; I'm keen on Knappogue Castle. It's a single malt and goes down like Scotch.

Qualludes were a little before my time. What’s was their effect and why don’t they make them anymore?

R10 People started dying, due to prescriptions being mixed with alcohol. I don’t think they knew about the effects of alcohol on meds back then. Qualludes didn’t actually last very long as a prescription.

R10 Bill Cosby.

Thanks, R11 — it’s probably good they’re not around anymore. I’d have rinsed them down with vodka and died.

We all would R12. I’m right their with you.

It was not worse than the opioid epidemic. They’d knock you on your ass hard if you took too many vs. Benzos which keep people going and wanting more. You had to be Wolf of Wall Street out of control to build a tolerance.

Plenty of people drank with them, and they were just fine. They were taken off the market due to the withdrawal and tolerance they caused, as they were NOT safer, or less addictive than barbiturates, yet sold that way to the gullible public. There were many automobile accidents caused by them too, but no large numbers of deaths attributed to drinking. "Luding Out" was quite common with a few drinks, and I know physicians who did too. R11 is wrong, as they were developed in India in 1951, and popular throughout the 80s Quaalude was a brand name, yet Methaqualone was quite popular under many trade names throughput the world. Good times.

In the 80’s it was known as the date rape drug. Period! Good times R15? Drugged out and unconscious is not a first date. No matter how many times you do it.

R16, I was never raped, nor drove a car. It was good times for me and my mates, sorry to differ/dither. I'm enjoying a coffee with a CBD non-dairy creamer at the moment, and though it's "kicked in", I'm missing Quāāludes all the more with all the reminiscing.

What about a whole 2mg Xanax bar? Is that even close?

I had been waiting last night for all the members of the "Maiden Aunts Brigade" to chime in on these two threads, and I suppose we've heard from at least one now. Many of us enjoy drugs and choose not to live our lives sober 24/7 R16. It's rather naïve to believe they were bad for everyone. Some of us like drugs, and choose to take them by our own free will and volition.

R18, pair it with a serving of a good whisky, and 25mg of Tramadol (sans paracetamol) and you're quite close!

Let's talk.....

R20, I'm fresh out of Tramadol so I guess it'll be Xanax and a couple glasses of Cakebread chardonnay. On the roof deck.

That sound marvelous R22! Promise our Maiden Aunts you won't jump or fall off! (Kinna Hora)

[Quote]Xanax isn’t the same.

True dat.

R21 Just don't drink on Darvocet, as it contains paracetamol or acetaminophen... not kind to the liver. Are regular Darvon still available without?

Word to the wise, the various tablets and capsules that end with "cet" like percocet, darvocet contain the dreaded paracetamol/acetaminophen. Some Tramodol that is given contains it as well. Regular Tramadol is not cleared through the liver, so no need to quiver before accepting that wine or cocktail.

Junkies

Okay, I have a question: were quaaludes euphoric? Alcohol is also euphoric to some extent AFAIC. GHB/GBL (a.k.a. G) feels like alcohol with some a strong layer of horniness on top of it. Benzos, on the other hand, at pharmacological doses feel almost like sugar pills. Where would that put the good old quaaludes in this recreational map? For those who never had a chance to try them, do we miss out on something compared to today's pharmacopeia?

Fuck. I'm high and it shows. Still the question about the quaaludes euphoria must be comprehensible. How did they feel?

[quote]Drugged out and unconscious is not a first date.

Says you. I once took them on a date when I lived in Sacramento. I woke up three days later on some stranger’s couch in Rancho Cucamonga. I have no idea who or what I did, but the clues pointed to it being a good time.

Some feel a bit of a stimulant effect of a benzo & booze, almost a bit of a mentally manic, yet physically relaxed sense of well-being. Quaaludes had that. If you were low-dose, and didn't have a large tolerance they felt euphoric with drink. Not everyone gets the euphoria of benzos & booze, just sleepiness... Everyone experiences drugs differentlly. Soma reminds me of Quaaludes' body buzz, as does Meprobamate.

I heard sex was great on them. I just discovered sex with Xanax and a pot infused gummy and that does the trick for me. Have a few hits of poppers and you could accommodate an entire football team in your ass.

^ sorry R29/30 that's for you!

Thanks R32/R34. I think the only use I could have found for them was as a tool to come down from coke/amphets. I'm not much of a downer person: I like to get high, not down!

G & T, 10mg edibles, and Pig Poppers!

Way, way before my time, but I've been told by former enthusiasts that a Quaalude felt "like you had four drinks in you, but you weren't slurring your words and you didn't wake up with a hangover" but that bootlegs, which I guess came on the scene after they were banned, were bad news and made people black out and all that.

That seem in line with what those of you who were there in the day experienced?

No. Not hardly R37, else we'd all just have four drinks and not be so nostalgic.

In my day, only hippies and blacks did marijuana. I loved ludes and Miltown, which my mother took. She said it didn’t hold a candle to Seconal.

R39 Try to get Soma. It breaks down to a metabolite that is Miltown. Real barbs are hard to compare to anything, except Quaaludes, so your mum had good taste! I have a friend who gets some sort of barbiturate for migraine, and she's been good enough to turn me on.

Drinking was never as good as quaaludes. I fucked up my life becoming an addict with them, Tuinals, and Seconals, but no drug ever felt as good as those three. Drinking and Valium did not compare. I quit doing everything before crack or X or whatever else kids do today became popular.

Do they still make Tuinals and Seconals?