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Other notable storylines included cancer and drugs.

Doreen Aldrich ( played by Jennifer Wood and then by Pamela Lincoln ) suffered from leukemia, and Joan Dancy ( Margaret Whitton ) had an addiction to drugs which was believed to have killed her, but it was later revealed that a hospital worker framed a doctor for pulling the plug on Joan's life support machines.

During the final years, one storyline centered around a woman over 60 years old who impersonated her daughter Adrienne Hunt ( Nancy Stafford ) by taking a special serum that would keep the old woman younger, but caused the death of Billy Aldrich ( Alec Baldwin ) in the process.