Word: users
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Users-who are mostly youngsters -are rhapsodic about the euphoric, spaced-out state the drug can produce. Many, calling methaqualone "heroin for lovers," also believe that it is an aphrodisiac. They are mistaken. As a "downer," or depressant, the drug may release the user from his normal sexual restraints. But it is also likely to make a male incapable of normal sexual performance. As one Vassar man puts it, "All your inhibitions are definitely broken down-like everything else in your body...
...combination can be catastrophic. Methaqualone and alcohol are synergistic: one multiplies the effects of the other. Taken together, they can depress the respiratory center and stop breathing; they may also slow the reflexes in the back of the throat, so that if a user vomits (which may happen after a large dose of methaqualone), he can choke...
...tradition of the electric toothbrush and the high-speed electric cocktail mixer, the latest effort-saving gadget is the Name Caller, which does away with the need of dialing a telephone. By pressing a button on the device, which can be easily attached to the phone, a user can reach any one of 38 numbers. Besides its speed and convenience, the Name Caller provides a foolproof way for a baby sitter to phone police, firemen or the family doctor in an emergency. The gadget-about the size of a small bathroom scale-has been available for only four months...
Newspaper ads and television commercials make it clear that the Name Caller links directly into the switching systems. A user can hook up the device by opening his phone box with a screw driver and connecting a couple of wires. With an IBM electrographic marker, the user records phone numbers on a revolving belt inside the machine in much the same fashion as high school students black out answers to a computerized test. As many as 38 phone numbers can be programmed onto the belt; later, any of these numbers can be changed by erasing the black markings and starting...
...Federal Communications Commission regulations to force the Name Caller off the market. The suit also contends that the telephone companies threatened to suspend the phone service of retailers if they continued to sell the device. Indeed, the telephone companies can legally shut off service to any phone user who hooks up a device himself...