{"id":946,"date":"2014-02-05T13:50:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T13:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theculture.net\/radio\/?p=946"},"modified":"2015-05-07T15:09:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T14:09:17","slug":"edies-acid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculture.net\/radio\/edies-acid\/","title":{"rendered":"Edie’s Acid"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Free of One\u2019s Melancholy Self<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A very big Quaalude<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Often prescribed to nervous housewives, a quaalude was something between a sleeping pill and a sedative. First synthesized in the late fifties, by 1965 \u2019ludes were being manufactured by William H. Rorer Inc., a Pennsylvania pharmaceutical company. The name \u201cquaalude\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is both a play on \u201cMaalox,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d another product manufactured by William H. Rorer Inc., and a synthesis of the phrase \u201cquiet interlude\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u2014a concept so simple and often so out of reach. Just whisper \u201cquiet interlude\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to yourself a few times. Seductive, no? It\u2019s the pill in the \u201ctake a pill and lie down\u00e2\u20ac\u009d directive thousands of Don Drapers gave their Bettys.
\nPersonally i was lucky enough to have a few years when the english version of\u00c2\u00a0Methaqualone<\/b><\/a> Maandrax was still just available on our very black market. In the very early eighties i managed to get several boxes of a South African branded capsules which were that last of this particular drug i have every seen.<\/p>\n

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There are no mention of Quaaludes in this episode, they just sprang to mind while writing this podcast, yet would certainly have been on Edie’s regular lists.<\/p>\n

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Free of One\u2019s Melancholy Self Often prescribed to nervous housewives, a quaalude was something between a sleeping pill and a sedative. First synthesized in the late fifties, by 1965 \u2019ludes were being manufactured by William H. Rorer Inc., a Pennsylvania…<\/p>\n

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