Recent Examples on the WebHer 1987 memoir was even more candid, describing her paralyzing anxiety and a decade of quaalude use that began in the 1970s.—Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023 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 Stone took anything and everything over the course of his life: peyote, quaaludes, smack, Ritalin, Halcion, benzodiazepines.—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020 Nearby, another plane, this one designed to simulate severe turbulence, was bobbing up and down like a bronco on quaaludes.—BostonGlobe.com, 24 Oct. 2019 By 13, Williams was drinking heavily and using speed, acid and quaaludes, according to legal documents.—Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019 Recent roles — whether getting high on quaaludes or eating raw bison liver — haven’t felt so personal.—David Canfield, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2019 Although old-guard quaaludes aren't among the substances screened, the device takes aim at the class of benzodiazepines most typically slipped into drinks today—including Valium, Xanax, and Rohypnol (or roofies).—Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2018
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