Thalidomide
Thalidomide:
A drug that is a sedative. Thalidomide causes extreme defects to children of women who take the drug while pregnant. The drug got a bad rep in the early 1950s so a German pharmaceutical company started selling the drug under many different names in 1957 and got away with it until 1961, about 10,000 children were born with severe deformities during this time.
(Dylan)
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