

Louis Theroux: Drinking to Oblivion
2016-04-24 · 60 min · ★ 7.2
Louis spends time at King's College Hospital in London where he immerses himself in the lives of patients in the grips of alcohol addiction and the medical staff trying to make them better.
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- Tom Barrow
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- United Kingdom
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