Confidential File: Barbiturates
Jan 23, 1955 | IMDB 0
30 min Watch NowTV Movie, Documentary, Drama
A filmed sequence dramatizes the problems addressed in the program: the story of a working mother addicted to barbiturates initially prescribed by her doctor.
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