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During the 1970s Senator Harold Hughes chaired a subcommittee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse.
• The Hughes Hearings were Big News in the recovery communities of the time.
• Mercedes McCambridge as Spokesperson for NCA testified
• So did Marty Mann and Bill W.
• Mercedes McCambridge was an Oscar Winning Actress
• She won an Oscar for her role in GIANT with James Dean
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