It marks the first time charges have been officially brought against the beleaguered comedian, who has been accused by upwards of 60 women.
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Bill Cosby arraigned on sexual assault charge in Pennsylvania
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‘Cosby Show’ Actor Declares, ‘Of Course Bill Cosby Is Guilty!’
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"We spent the next two hours sitting on a bench talking. Through tears, she told me her story. She cursed him for violating both her trust and her body. She cursed herself for not being smarter, and for degrading herself in pursuit of success. I listened patiently. As she began to run out of steam, she turned to me. "Do you believe me?"
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I am not sure if our conversation was cathartic for her. I know it was heart-breaking for me."
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In July, Cosby acknowledged he obtained drugs to give to women he wanted to have sex with during the 1960s and ‘70s. These drugs included quaaludes, lab-produced pills that act to suppress the central nervous system, which slows heart rate and can make users feel relaxed or sedated. Cosby has been accused of — but hasn’t admitted to — sexual assault and rape.
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Yet Cosby acknowledged that he got seven prescriptions from a Los Angeles doctor for quaaludes.
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Jordan Belfort, the man who inspired the film “The Wolf of Wall Street,” described his experience with the drug in his autobiography:
"All at once a warm feeling came rising up my brain stem, as a pleasant tingling sensation went ricocheting through every molecule of my body. The phone receiver was still at my ear and I wanted to tell Bo to have Rocco come pick me up at the Brookville Country Club, but I couldn’t get my lips to move. It was as if my brain was sending out signals but they were being intercepted — or scrambled. I felt paralyzed. And I felt wonderful. I stared at the shiny metal face of the pay phone and cocked my head to the side, trying to find my own reflection … How pretty the phone looked! … So shiny it was!"
The key important inhibitory messenger that quaaludes act on is GABA, short for gamma-aminobutyric acid.
This action is why quaaludes make us drowsy and slow down our heart rate and breathing. It’s also one of the reasons they’re so dangerous — a quaalude overdose can result in coma or even death. If they’re combined with another sedative like alcohol, they become far more dangerous, and much lower doses of the drug can kill.