Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa

The more of the drug you have, the more of the effect you're going to have.

There's many drugs on the market, especially the ones that are considered medically to be safe drugs, are ones that have a ceiling.

So you could have X amount and you're going to have X amount of response from your body.

But if you keep going with the dose, your body doesn't respond any further.

It's like this is the maximum response I will get no matter if I continue the dose.

That is why certain drugs are safe.

Drugs with a no-sealing effect are obviously extremely dangerous because it's really at the discretion of the individual.

If the individual is abusing this drug or they're using it for recreational purposes, then of course that's very dangerous because you're going to keep getting more and more and more depression of the central nervous system, and there is no sealing.

So the more you take, the more it goes up.

You're then mixing it with other things such as alcohol, and that's when it becomes an absolute disaster.

So to summarise, it obviously got discontinued by the late 70s, early 80s.

The overdose deaths were climbing.

Recreational abuse of quaaludes were absolutely everywhere.

Production through the black market also went up like crazy and dependence rates also went up, you know, where people, when you become dependent on a drug and you can have more and more and more because your body starts...

altering how it can tolerate that drug.

Okay, so dependence and tolerance became a lot higher.

So that's when government started heavily restricting it.

Yeah, and specifically in the United States, quaaludes were moved to something called a Schedule 1 in 1984.

So that meant high abuse potential.

It wasn't accepted in medical use anymore and the production of it effectively ended.