Not at all. I threw out Thalidomide to demonstrate how long it takes for the public to forget our mistakes. And you knew immediately what drug I was talking about. Hell, since I retired I don’t know what the hell any o f the drugs I see in commercials even do.
Sometimes a person should stop digging. The drug has been widely used world wide since the 1930’s. There are known side effects that are seen in long term therapy.
Research by German scientists to discover a substitute for quinine led to the synthesis in 1934 of Resochin (chloroquine) and Sontochin (3-methyl-chloroquine). These compounds belonged to a new class of antimalarials, the four-amino quinolines.
Following the war, chloroquine and DDT emerged as the two principal weapons in WHO’s global eradication malaria campaign. Subsequently, chloroquine resistant P. falciparum probably arose in four separate locations starting with the Thai-Cambodian border around 1957; in Venezuela and parts of Colombia around 1960; in Papua New Guinea in the mid-1970s and in Africa starting in 1978 in Kenya and Tanzania and spreading by 1983 to Sudan, Uganda, Zambia and Malawi.
Chloroquine was recently studied in pregnant women for Zika prophylaxis https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-15467-6
On the other hand, there was an extremely popular song that educated us about it. Way beyond the ACTUAL harm done.