No, asbestos was not used in drywall. Drywall is typically made of gypsum and paper, not asbestos.
Asbestos is not banned, but its uses are limited. If you used asbestos in the 1960s then you used the thing that is still called asbestos.
Asbestos Abatement is the term used when referring to the removal, renovation, repairing, or enclosing of asbestos or any such activity that involves renovating asbestos containing materials.
Insulation used to contain asbestos, but modern insulation materials do not contain asbestos.
Asbestos (particularly blue asbestos)
Asbestos is not used in today's modern technologies. Currently, most of the Western and Developed world have banned all uses of Asbestos.
Asbestos was not typically used in refrigerators themselves, but it was commonly used as insulation in older homes, including around refrigerators for heat resistance. Exposure to asbestos fibers from insulation materials can pose serious health risks.
Some, but not all, forms of insulation used to contain asbestos. Insulation applied new now does not contain asbestos.
was asbestos used in production of cast iron pipe
Asbestos is known for a very long time, even the Romans used it.
"Asbestos poisoning" is not a term that is used when discussing asbestos. It implies an adverse effect occurring soon after exposure to too much asbestos but that is not what happens. The adverse effects of asbestos exposures occur only many years after asbestos exposure began.
Asbestos was commonly used in drywall before the 1980s, but it is no longer used in modern drywall products.