10 Banned Medications That Were Too Effective To Stay Legal

10 Banned Medications That Were Too Effective To Stay Legal In nineteen sixty-five, American doctors were handing out a small white tablet with the confidence of people who believed they had finally gotten it right. The pill was called Quaalude, its active compound methaqualone, and the pharmaceutical industry had spent years positioning it as the sleeping pill that couldn't hurt you. Non-barbiturate. Non-addictive. Safe for the anxious housewife, the overworked executive, the college student who just needed to slow down. They were wrong on every count.