designer drugs

For a drug that has been essentially dead in the United States for four decades, the Quaalude has maintained an impressive cultural presence.

In a sense, we are fortunate. That is if you can call 100,000 overdose deaths per year, mostly due to fentanyl, fortunate.

In the 1970s chemists in the illicit drug business began exploring a new class of psychoactive drugs, which were structurally related to the synthetic opiate Demerol. The following story is truly one-in-a-million.