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No. There was no rehab in those days. Uppers and downers were par for the entertainer industry course. You had to get up at 4:00 am to get to the studio early to take advantage of shooting in sunlight. You had to go to bed really early too, thus the barbituates. Barbituates were not known to be habit forming then. No one thought any thing about it until Alan Ladd died from barbituates and alcohol in late sixties. My grandmother used to take dexies to lose weight. Commonly available. Handed out over doctor's counters in office. Once saw a diet doctor in Sherman Oaks who had drawers full of different colored dexies in huge pound bags. Rich people put their teen-age daughters on them regularly. No one knew. People close to Monroe tried to get her to cut back put she would not. She always had trouble sleeping, probably caused by the dexies. She was also surrounded by enablers and other users who DiMaggio banned from attending her funeral.

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