“ DRUG ADDICTION: A MEDICAL HAZARD ” 1956 NARCOTICS AND DRUG ABUSE BY MEDICAL DOCTORS XD46634

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1956 color film, produced by Stark-Films for the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in collaboration with Winthrop-Stearns Inc. pharmaceutical company, takes a cautionary look at the issue of drug addiction among doctors, using documentary interviews in combination with staged dramatizations to highlight the dangers of opioid use among members of the medical profession who have access to addictive drugs (TRT: 29:14). A man in a grey suit representing the Winthrop-Stearns pharmaceutical company speaks from a desk in an office (0:06). In closeup, Dr. Louis Krause provides an introduction (1:01). POV: A car approaches the gates of a medical building (1:57). Opening titles: “The Federal Bureau of Narcotics and the University of Maryland School of Medicine Present Drug Addiction, A Medical Hazard, Script by Dr. John C. Krantz, Jr., Narration by The Honorable Harry J. Ansl