“FACE OF AN ADDICT” 1968 DRUG ABUSE & ADDICTION AMONG MEDICAL DOCTORS EDUCATIONAL FILM XD46574

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This short film takes a look at addiction and whom it affects, specifically those in the medical profession. It was sponsored in the interest of the medical profession by Winthrop Laboratories Limited (:12) and produced by the Canadian film production company, Crawley Films (:29) founded by Frank Crawley and wife Judith in 1939. The film uses pseudonyms in order to protect the actual identities of those a part of the true story. It opens with the office of the man whose story is to be featured called Dr. James Carter Stone (:41). The title screen appears shortly after (1:08). Robert Wright narrates the film and points out Canadian doctors have a history of addiction (1:18). Dr. Stone approaches his office and new practice as he was to be full partners with a Dr. Kelso (3:10). Film then shows Stone meeting with various patients who more often than not are not suffering from emergencies (4:07). The pressures of being a doctor are explored as Stone struggles to measure up to his own and to his partner’s standards as well as competition from other doctors in the area (5:57). While working 70-hour weeks he also must keep up with the ever-changing developments in the medical field (7:07). He visits more patients (7:30) ending with a woman who loses her baby during the birthing process (8:36). Although this incident affects him, he must continue to work and is seen checking Xray’s of a man’s chest (9:03). The doctor is then pictured in bed unable to sleep (9:26) even though he had already taken barbiturates. He then succumbs to pressure and sticks himself with a syringe pulled from his own medical briefcase (11:18). When the phone rings in the morning the man is left groggy from the drug use though he must return to work and keep going (12:51). As his partner becomes more absent, Dr. Stone continues to use in order to maintain his pace at work (13:23). He writes a prescription for the same narcotics he himself had been taking for another patient to whom he dictates that they must not take more than he had prescribed (13:48). In between visits, he shoots up and the needle falls breaking on the floor (16:25). In order to keep his own supply of narcotics he takes fake prescriptions to out of the way drug stores (17:00). While a patient is in his office, Stone begins to experience withdrawal symptoms and cannot focus on the patient (17:25). His behavior becomes more erratic and irritable (18:01). Dr. Kelso appears to inquire about an inquiry into their office by the Health and Welfare office over the rise in narcotics (19:02). As Dr. Kelso seeks to solve the problem immediately, Stone slips into further withdraw and inevitably falls into his seat (19:43). Dr. Kelso notices the syringe in Stone’s open desk drawer (20:21). The narrator returns to inform viewers there is no such thing as a ‘stabilizing dose’ and that continued use will inevitably lead to addiction (20:45). While Stone did break the law, the courts did not prosecute him to the full extent of the law and he is able to receive psychiatric treatment (22:14). He is then pictured a year later, sober and heading back to work (22:41). In the office he receives a call from the same woman whom had lost her baby while giving birth in the beginning of the film (23:18). The pressure and trauma from the first incident which led him to drug use return and the doctor pulls out his briefcase and relapses (24:30) this time over dosing and dying in his office chair. The film had been a representation of a true case (25:51).
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[@thomasgary1219]

To all the folks commenting saying addiction is a choice. I can totally understand how you feel that way. The truth is nobody ever wakes up one day and just decides they want to become a drug addict. When you are in a car wreck and have to have surgery to repair the damage done in the wreck and you are prescribed opiates for pain, you take them so you won't be in agony, and then you realize one day that you are hooked, that is not a choice. Don't be so quick to judge others who become addicted to drugs until you have walked in that person's shoes. I used to feel the same way, until I was in a terrible car wreck that changed my life FOREVER. Try having some compassion for these poor souls who's only sin was being in an accident or getting sick. NO ONE ever wants to become an addict.

[@diablo666541]

What they don't understand is all it takes is one bad car accident one spinal injury or a compound fracture is all it would take to turn you into an attic it's a matter of pain and relieval

[@thedavesiknow4598]

Yes agree. Removing judgement must first be do e before approaching such subjects as addiction. 💜

[@The1trueking1966]

Try minding ya business

[@rickp3753]

If I couldn't simply chosen to stop drugging, I would have. With a mental illness all bets are off.

[@anonymous-Australia]

❤❤❤I am one who was prescribed oxycontin by my Dr over 10 years ago now and he said they were non addictive and had no side effect and he could make me feel good too. He pit me up to 150mg twice a a day with 250 5 mg Endone as well per month. Yhrn I moved and they did not want to prescribe me them and I was left and needed to get help and the hospital looked at me like a junkie but I did not know what withdrawals were Fast forward till today I am still on otp.

[@Upinthisbitch5450]

“Three a.m. and despite two pentobarbitals I’m tense and awake”, that’s truly when you know you’re an addict.

[@GFHanks]

Before we even get to the drug part of the story, count the cigarettes. I seem to remember, as a child in the 60's, the Doc actually smoking while examining me. 🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬

[@wesmcgee1648]

Yep. My pediatrician had an ash tray in each exam room. He smoked LandMs. They killed him in his late 60s.

[@GFHanks]

@@wesmcgee1648 "Those were the good old days." 😆😆😆😆

[@alexroberts9349]

@@wesmcgee1648 First time hearing of that brand of cigarettes.

[@diablo666541]

I remember when they used to smoke on the airplanes and they would ask you smoking or non-smoking wish they still had that

[@GFHanks]

@@diablo666541 Me too. My first commercial flight, I smoked two cigs at a time, for the entire two and a half hour flight.

[@TheArmageddonCafe]

Perhaps, Doc, turning that bright light off over your pillow shining directly into your face might help you to relax...

[@dd776]

Or maybe ask that film crew to leave his bedroom....

[@TheArmageddonCafe]

@@dd776 lol 😆 Yeah, seriously, those film crews can be real pests!

[@MarkSmith-tp6zc]

And soon Dr Jim had a happy-go-lucky waiting room full of benzo patients.

[@markdraper3469]

The curtains behind the narrator @24:49... We had the same ones in our house in 1962. That's the kind of passive abuse my parents practiced.

[@martytruelove5026]

Curtains...eh "DRAPER"

[@monto39]

The car he was driving looked like a 1962 also

[@markdraper3469]

@@monto39 1958 Ford, though I think they kinda messed up on the continuity. But the one grill shot and night shot were the Ford.

[@monto39]

@@markdraper3469 thanks for info. those fins look incredible

[@frothe42]

​@markdraper3469 1959 Ford.

[@BlueHaze7024]

The doctor drives a 1959 Ford and none of the cars look much newer so this looks to have been filmed in the early 1960's instead of 1968. Still an interesting time capsule. Thanks for posting.

[@beau1112]

Same thing with most of their movies the time period is wrong can tell via the cars good eyes I wouldn't of noticed so +1 score to the car dudes????? Lol We need yall for future generations

[@m.woodsrobinson9244]

Yeah, I had it pegged for early 60s, too. The clothes, the background music, very unlikely 1968.

[@tomtroy3792]

Back in them days you could smoke in the grocery store and restaurants almost anywhere now you can't even smoke in the park

[@beau1112]

@@tomtroy3792 yeah I used to relax at a gazebo in the middle of a very very small town everyone knew each other maybe a bit to much. But I'd go there to smoke and just chill instead of just smoking at home. Check out the good view and relax. But last time I went out 3 fake cops with fake badges and were probably on meth all stormed me and wanted to arrest me and my 2 friends. They took pictures of us on screen and made us look at the camera. One of them shined a bright ass light on us and just stormed in. One of them freaked out and said before anything happened "ONE OF THEM IS RUNNING" Nobody ran anywhere he was tripping. He ran and did like 3 laps around the whole town on foot and another one said "I saw him throw a sawed off shotgun in the bush" And they Literally looked for about a hour in this strip of bushes and I helped him look for this said sawn off that didn't exist. They just wanted my weed and didn't get anything. Keep in mind it's probably about midnight then to. They were literally tripping. Idk what was wrong with them but they had like a demon in them or something they weren't acting like a normal human being. Very strange behavior and seeing things. Yeah I feel so protected... They didn't search us they just took photos of us and we went home and yeah just a weird weird experience. Never went back to that gazebo again They ruined it. Here's the law based on taking pictures of suspects in my state 21.15 - Invasive Visual Recording makes it a crime for you to photograph, record, or transmit the following without consent: The intimate area of another individual, if they believed the public would not see that area.

[@johngore7744]

Right is it a Fairlane or a Falcon?

[@ReptileAssylum]

Thanks, what a treasure this channel is

[@alanapril4643]

It all started with me when I was a child feeling euphoria for the first time from an antihistamine. I kept chasing that euphoria for most of my life by graduating to harder drugs. Mainly opiates and muscle relaxers.

[@519Chawk420]

what r u even saying anti histamines type 1 2 etc dont have euphoria dude at all in any dose? if used combined with a few sibtstances increases euphoria u feel from the OTHER SUBTANCE lol

[@martytruelove5026]

Laxatives cleaned me right out...felt like,well,you know !

[@katherinea.williams3044]

Every time I’ve been hospitalized, I ALWAYS ask for 50mg of Benadryl- wow- forget painkillers- what a rush! I even bought a banana bag recently for $510 with 50mg of diphenhydramine and 30mg Toradol at the local urgent care facility. Love & Light from Miami Shores🦚 Stay safe mates✌🏼🌎 Have a care for one another✨

[@katherinea.williams3044]

⁠​⁠@@519Chawk420There’s a pattern, but it IS subjective. I treat myself to a banana bag every few months and I ALWAYS request 50mg of diphenhydramine (IV Benadryl)- and I get it, as I’m paying $510 per bag. It hits in a nanosecond and it’s gotten me high as a kite; more so than IV morphine when I had surgery. I LOVE that burn going up my veins- I’ve never used IV drugs either, only at the urgent care or hospital. My point is, as the original commenter wrote, that can absolutely happen, but it’s also highly subjective. Love & Light from Miami Shores🦚 Stay safe mate✌🏼🌎 Have a care for one another🫧🖤

[@ArcticChonk]

Literally anyone can become an addict under the right (wrong) circumstances.

[@Xtoxinlolinecronomicon]

It's like I'm watching this in FNV haha, there is a certain charm to these old commercials and informative videos.

[@kingcobra7183]

Relax and don't over do-it... Yeah one hit of jet never hurt anyone, hell I maybe even do 3 hits *You are now addicted to Jet*

[@Xtoxinlolinecronomicon]

@@kingcobra7183 Never used that stuff. Only hydra and turbo.

[@kingcobra7183]

@@Xtoxinlolinecronomicon you never used psycho, med-x or buffout, mentats, your a liar , you must have used the chems at some point you just don't remember

[@kingcobra7183]

@@Xtoxinlolinecronomicon this old video of this doctor was pretty interesting and funny doe, I liked it

[@Xtoxinlolinecronomicon]

@@kingcobra7183 Never used psycho as I use sneak attack crits. Never used med-x cause I just use food item stack and hotkey stimpacks. Never used mentats as I always run a high intellect build. Sorry, but I legit don't use drugs in fallout games. You don't need them if you're good at the game. And you get OP really fast if you know what you're doing. Also why use psycho if you could just eat yao guai meat? Oh, and just using the right ammo for the enemies you're facing helps a ton too. And I love crafting ammo at the reloading bench. So, no im not lying.

[@bobsoldrecords1503]

A bit better thought out than most anti-drug films. It was harder to fool people who knew well, I guess

[@lundsweden]

Young Jim Stoner!

[@user-xu7pq1fu3p]

I remember reading Bulgakov,s novel "Морфий" in med school. Good work collecting this videos))

[@manhoot]

Calling Dr Howard Dr fine Dr Howard

[@redzipper8570]

oh hell yes, that's funny bud

[@russellloomis4376]

😂😂😂😂

[@beau1112]

HELLOOOOO! helllooooooo! Hellooooooo!

[@lorenanders702]

Nyuk nyuk nyuk!

[@beau1112]

@@lorenanders702 shaaaat up you *slap*

[@rapman5363]

In years past this was a career ender ,however in modern times with the treatment models available today the medical professionals who become addicted fare better than in years past.

[@lobo1928]

on the way around the doctor had more power back then way more people look the other way I think it was more of a career and nowadays

[@wesmcgee1648]

I was a cop for 25 years, and got to know a lot of ER docs. Most had practices and worked the ER on a rotating basis. But there were a couple that only did ER work. These guys I quickly discovered from the nurses, were addicted to morphine. One wound up losing his ticket and the other committed suicide.

[@diablo666541]

Dr. Stoned lol. I like how he on chair at the end like he completely overwhelmed by a shot.

[@johndutton7915]

I think mabey he overdosed

[@alexroberts9349]

This looks like it was filmed in the early 60s (the cars are from the late 50s and early 60) I doubt this was filmed in 1968.

[@brianarbenz7206]

I scanned the start and end for a copyright year, but if it's on there it is far too small to read. But I agree this is probably no later than 1964.

[@bruno8126]

I would say this is like 1958? Definitely no later than 1963!

[@warrenstrong8615]

I've been an alcoholic and a drug addict at three different times in my life and it's been going on 20s without anything other than what the doctor prescribes me.

[@wesmcgee1648]

Impairment among physicians has always been a very hush hush subject. I was a supervisor in narcotics division during part of my police career. I was astounded at the number of drug using doctors. Most kept their careers and got straight. Some overdosed and died. I never arrested a doctor for drug diversion because, according to our D.A., they paid a high enough price. I wonder how it is now.

[@mercoid]

The addicted doctor’s patients can pay a high price as well. But I guess that doesn’t matter to a DA.

[@Toasty_88]

That is pretty messed up. Sad that they would treat doctors somehow different to anyone else in addiction. As if doctors somehow pay a higher price then anyone else in addiction so they deserve to be let off? Addiction does not discriminate between professions or social status... Man people were stupid back then. Hopefully people who make those decisions are smarter then that today. The rampant diversion that went on for decades unpunished is what made it possible for Purdue to flood the streets with Oxycontin via pill mills. If only they had taken it seriously maybe this opioid crisis would not be nearly as bad. I remember watching documentary about the pill mills and how the DEA had a hell of a time trying to arrest these pill mill doctors because for whatever reason no one wanted to go after a doctor even though they were the biggest illegal drug dealers in the area and in some cases the state.

[@johnceglick8714]

No excuse for addiction to drugs , and I assume it's heroin Doc was using .

[@packersnerd]

@@johnceglick8714 It’s a disease

[@suspiciouswatermelon7639]

@@packersnerd Disease my ass.

[@jimkon5767]

Great post PF - thank you!

[@sgtcrabfat]

Same today, Doctors having such issues, but if it is a Nurse or other medical professional, police informed, arrests made and criminal record and struck of the medical /nursing register.. Seen on a number of occasions.

[@Jonathan.D]

I've always known that Maple syrup is additive. 😄

[@valiantredneck]

Don’t get it.

[@Jonathan.D]

@@valiantredneck They are Canadian addicts.

[@megschramm8307]

He's lucky he didn't get sued for malpractice when Mrs. Callahan lost her baby.

[@countdown2xstacy]

Are you with me Doctor Wu

[@squirrelcovers6340]

We recently had one in the Whitehouse "CANDYMAN" Ronny Jackson.

[@johnceglick8714]

A congressman ?

[@MarkSmith-tp6zc]

And soon Dr Jim had a carefree waiting room full of Valium cases.

[@junkettarp8942]

Oh Doc...I feel bad...real bad. You gotter do something ...Please Doc...please...Oh man..I caNT TAKE IT NO MORE.

[@mercoid]

Dr. Stoned

[@jammininthepast]

Dr. Stoned taught us to make sure you do your dope in a locked bathroom, he did it for us.

[@jamesu9508]

The good old days of doctor shopping haha. You’d only need 3 docs to get whatever u want and no way for them to check easily.

[@RobMcGinley81]

Sadly it's still endemic

[@lindathrall5133]

MY DAD'S JUMP KIT WAS AT THE READY HE ALWAYS KEPT IT STOCKED ALL THE TIME AFTER HIS CALLS I WOULD CHECK THE JUMP KIT IF IT NEEDED TO RESTOCKED I DID THE RESTOCKING AS NEEDED I ALWAYS MADE SURE THE EXTRA SUPPLIES WERE THERE AS NEEDED

[@thomasgary1219]

What is a Jump Kit My friend?

[@otter4206]

And why are you screaming Linda?

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

Eerie, disturbing. He looked like a junkie even before he got his first taste.

[@alphabay_pictureshow9724]

Every doc I knew partied pretty hard lol

[@wesmcgee1648]

I have a doctor cousin. We used to hunt together. That boy popped painkillers and drank beer by the gallon. He finally stopped it.

[@johnceglick8714]

Heroin was widely used in 68 ; Evan more so than amphetimes , Babituates , Halicinagenics , and marijuana . Alcohol is the most widely used since day one.

[@diablo666541]

Heroin was legally obtained until 1928

[@LilyKittyCatto]

@@diablo666541 it is still prescribed here in the UK for end of life care to ease suffering as much as possible, its called diamorphine here when used medically

[@Consistentlycrazy]

@@LilyKittyCatto they gave me a shot of diamorphine when I was in labour with my eldest son. It sent me to sleep between contractions and passed over to my son so he struggled to breathe properly when he was born

[@pandaeyes42]

Liquid Acid is SICK!!!

[@user-jj3ep2md7m]

The announcer either needs dipity doo or a haircut. Or just a comb. And Jim Stone sank like a stone.

[@DannyHood-j]

This looks like 40s, 50s?

[@bruno8126]

If it was 1968, it would be color. I would say this is like 1959

[@terranceaddison4599]

Are you sure this was made in 1968?

[@alicewolfson4423]

His last name is Stone, seems more like stoned.

[@donnydonnybrook8131]

They just want too talk, and talk.....

[@judsonsnell]

Mrs. Callahan strikes again....

[@lifeindetale]

My goodness somehow I left playback speed at .75 watching beginning of this.. yikes!

[@gardengeek3041]

@2:00 ... the assumption that all doctors are men. Jump to now, at least 60% of med students are female. Are they just as prone to addiction ?

[@xxxdatboi22xxx66]

This was filmed in the 60s they were a bit sexist

[@av8tor261]

Smoking doctors.......hum. House calls...LOL

[@diablo666541]

Oh yes wasn't unusual for dr to smoke n tell u about living healthy

[@kathmandu1575]

Don't do dope!

[@mnmountainman9343]

😎✌

[@johnceglick8714]

Is Doc shootin heroin ?

[@adeladd7638]

Morphine,no medical diamorphine in USA.

[@johnceglick8714]

@@adeladd7638 Thank for information . But , when , and who invented Diamorphine ? Didn't come out during The American Civil War ?

[@adeladd7638]

@@johnceglick8714 No,early 20th century. Civil War would have used laudanum and a fairly new drug,morphine, 1845. I think DM was first synthesised by Merck, but would have to check.

[@johnceglick8714]

@@adeladd7638 Thought a German based company called Bayer developed Diamorphine by the mid 1800s , but I think you're Moe accurate.

[@adeladd7638]

@@johnceglick8714 Turns out I was wrong on the morphine,it was early 1800s, a German invention,marketed by Merck.1845 was the hypodermic syringe. Diacetylmorphine hydrochloride,to give it its full name,was invented in 1874,earlier than I thought,by a Brit. It was later marketed by Bayer,but a bit later than you thought,who made an aspirin and heroin cough mixture,I'll bet that worked.

[@johnceglick8714]

TRRIGGERS !!

[@mercoid]

BAAAAHHH!! Heeee heeee ha heee! Dwrugs

[@MtnBoar]

Spackracey

[@LightVortexMatrixStudy]

All addictions are crystals because that's what we are made of.

[@fetus2280]

Yup and thats why the medical establishment uses Crystal Healing right ? ...... Sit Down . Shut up .. READ A BOOK .

[@areyoutheregoditsmedave]

What does that even mean?

[@fetus2280]

@@areyoutheregoditsmedave Ya have to wonder sometimes ... How many times were they dropped as an infant, or How much Medication they are neglecting to take. Some ppl mate, make me wonder how we got This far as a species when you have a vast # of such Ignorant and Stupid humans around .

[@LightVortexMatrixStudy]

@@areyoutheregoditsmedave Good question. Ready.... We are made of water when frozen it is a crystal. Basically if you look you will find that all addictions are crystals. Because we are all made out of light that slows down into crystals. Here you go. I warn you it's the secret to everything and it will change your fundamental beliefs on existence but those who don't seek will never find: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5SZmWh_hJJ_aas good luck brother

[@LightVortexMatrixStudy]

@@fetus2280 🙄😳 Actually medicine is based on crystals Acetylsalicicylic discovered by Dr. Bayer in 1916 distilled the crystals from the weeping white willow tree Bark. So yes the fundamental element of medicine is crystals. Sorry I'm a genius.