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But Crowe was set on nailing one particular scene, where Hudson’s character, the groupie Penny Lane, attempts suicide by overdosing on quaaludes.
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Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
Not long before Bobbie Arnstein's death, Hefner and Playboy were confronted by tragedy when Bunny Adrienne Pollack died of a quaalude overdose in 1973.
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Lanford Beard,
PEOPLE.com,
8 Feb. 2022
The couple were discovered surrounded by what the police described as a commercial amount of cocaine, quaaludes and marijuana.
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David Reamer,
Anchorage Daily News,
3 May 2020
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Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
Not long before Bobbie Arnstein's death, Hefner and Playboy were confronted by tragedy when Bunny Adrienne Pollack died of a quaalude overdose in 1973.
—
Lanford Beard,
PEOPLE.com,
8 Feb. 2022
The couple were discovered surrounded by what the police described as a commercial amount of cocaine, quaaludes and marijuana.
—
David Reamer,
Anchorage Daily News,
3 May 2020
See All Example Sentences for quaalude
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“Quaalude.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quaalude. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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quaalude
noun
quaa·lude
ˈkwā-ˌlüd 
: a tablet or capsule of methaqualone
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