# Does everyone know what “quaaludes” are? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-know-what-quaaludes-are/724580 "2015-07-08T15:18:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-know-what-quaaludes-are/724580/61 "2015-07-10T17:28:03Z")
> [@tapu](#): > > Vomiting is listed as a common side effect on the 4-5 drug sites I just checked… That’s true for about 90% of drugs in general. Anti-emetics are pretty much the only exception. ---
**Author:** ![MmeRose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@MmeRose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MmeRose)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-know-what-quaaludes-are/724580/62 "2015-07-11T00:41:15Z")
I bet at least one antiemetic has nausea/vomiting listed as a side effect. This post has been a real education! Did anyone know about Milltown? The name is vaguely familiar. Is it a brand name, generic or slang? I’ve missed the Cosby story (busy at work). Did he slip the qualudes into the women’s food or drinks or did offer them? “Would you like a cup of coffee or one of these tablets?” Strange. And wouldn’t they taste it, if hidden in food? I worked with a woman who used to dissolve Cascara laxatives and put them into our boss’s coffee. I tasted I tiny drop of the coffee and couldn’t believe he couldn’t taste it, it was quite disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-know-what-quaaludes-are/724580/63 "2015-07-11T04:01:35Z")
Before I went to pharmacy school, and also prior to the release of Zofran, I worked with a woman who was on chemo, and her Reglan tablets made her sick, because they tasted so bad. ☹ She later moved away, and I found out a while back, via the Social Security Death Index, that she died less than a year later. I never found any further information, and have always wondered if her cancer came back and she killed herself. As for Miltown, that was a brand name for meprobamate, which is a minor tranquilizer and muscle relaxer that is still on the market in the U.S. but is rarely used. I could count on one hand the number of times I’ve dispensed it. It was called “Miltown” because it was tested in some of the East Coast mill towns. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-know-what-quaaludes-are/724580/64 "2015-07-11T04:57:47Z")
As somebody who spent the majority of the 1980s as a teenager the first thing that came to my mind: [People on 'ludes should not drive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv8pkRpqXbg). ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-know-what-quaaludes-are/724580/65 "2015-07-11T05:14:41Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > According to the _Scarface_ documentary quaaludes are what you give to women to make them love you again. > > [cite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gFGYaLRYjk) And that’s kinda what I thought 'ludes were for. After recent reading, it looks like guys (deliberatly) confused “willing to have sex with me” and “physically unable to object”. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-know-what-quaaludes-are/724580/66 "2015-07-11T10:33:05Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I found out a while back, via the Social Security Death Index, that she died less than a year later. Were you just browsing? ---
**Author:** ![CerebrAl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@CerebrAl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CerebrAl)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-know-what-quaaludes-are/724580/67 "2015-07-11T11:26:30Z")
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**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-know-what-quaaludes-are/724580/68 "2015-07-11T12:12:55Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > That’s true for about 90% of drugs in general. Anti-emetics are pretty much the only exception. ?? I was responding to where \*you \*said that quaaludes _weren’t_ associated with vomiting. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-know-what-quaaludes-are/724580/69 "2015-07-11T12:59:40Z")
> [@MmeRose](#): > > This post has been a real education! Did anyone know about Milltown? The name is vaguely familiar. Is it a brand name, generic or slang? Miltown is a brand name tranquilizer/sedative, and is the drug that the Rolling Stones were talking about in “Mother’s Little Helper”. It’s a very Stepford-Wives-era drug. ETA: mostly ninja’d by **nearwildheaven**! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-know-what-quaaludes-are/724580/70 "2015-07-11T13:41:30Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > I’m familiar with quaaludes from Ben Stein’s book [Ludes](http://www.amazon.com/Ludes-Benjamin-Stein/dp/0312500122/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1436371935&sr=8-1&keywords=%27Ludes) as well as the movie based on the book, [The Boost](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094783/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_90). Unless you’re referencing a forgotten scene (forgotten by me, of course), _The Boost_ was about cocaine addiction. That movie, and Len Bias, was enough to convince me not to even _try_ cocaine. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-know-what-quaaludes-are/724580/71 "2015-07-11T13:53:13Z")
They’re called **Mandrax** in the rest of the Anglosphere. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-know-what-quaaludes-are/724580/72 "2015-07-11T13:58:27Z")
I know that they’re some sort of illegal drug, but I couldn’t tell you what category they are (upper, downer, intoxicant, whatever). ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-know-what-quaaludes-are/724580/73 "2015-07-11T14:08:33Z")
Interesting thread. I was born in 1975, so remember hearing the name “quaaludes” plenty, but never really thought about what they were. Reading this thread has me really wanting to try one. I guess I’m just a degenerate, or really bored. ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_from\_CB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@Alex\_from\_CB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alex_from_CB)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-know-what-quaaludes-are/724580/74 "2015-07-11T20:44:53Z")
Yea, Ludes. Rorer 714’s. Did you know Sargent Friday on the TV show, Dragnet had badge number 714? Go Gators. Me and the lovely Miss Lynn H… Yahtzee. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-know-what-quaaludes-are/724580/75 "2015-07-11T23:09:32Z")
They’re old people drugs, right? Like angel dust and brown acid. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-know-what-quaaludes-are/724580.md?page=3)