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The Drug bug

Yugoslavia, 1970
film

An animated film on drug dependence, based on a La Fontaine fable. It shows how “speed” or amphetamines can begin by helping and end by hurting. T..

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Drugs and the nervous system. - Rev. ed.

United States, 1972
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