and sedatives like quaalude. In less than a decade from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s, drugs went from counterculture to mainstream. By the 1970s, drug use was no longer a way to rebel—it was a way to fit in, and it had spread widely. As writer Candi Strecker observed, “The Seventies fulfillment of the Sixties revolution was unattractive blue-collar teens puking Quaaludes at a Grand Funk Railroad concert.”
