That’s true for about 90% of drugs in general. Anti-emetics are pretty much the only exception.
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.
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.
As somebody who spent the majority of the 1980s as a teenager the first thing that came to my mind:
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”.
Were you just browsing?
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I was responding to where *you *said that quaaludes weren’t associated with vomiting.
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!
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.
They’re called Mandrax in the rest of the Anglosphere.
I know that they’re some sort of illegal drug, but I couldn’t tell you what category they are (upper, downer, intoxicant, whatever).
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.
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.
They’re old people drugs, right? Like angel dust and brown acid.