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Quaaludes Are Making a Comeback. Should They?

Thanks to The Wolf of Wall Street, underground chemists, and drug-taking connoisseurs, a small new generation is discovering Quaaludes.

Culture • October 7, 2026
Quaaludes Are Making a Comeback. Should They?
Wolf of Wall Street/Paramount Pictures. Courtesy of Alamy.
Written by MATTHA BUSBY

For decades, Quaaludes have occupied a peculiar place in the American sexual imagination. Initially prescribed for anxiety and insomnia from 1965, the euphoria-inducing sedatives became the defining sex drug of the 1970s — a product of the sexual revolution and, perhaps, an accelerant of it, and one which offered willing consumers a chemical shortcut around […]

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