Selling the music room.

“Once a branded disease has achieved a degree of cultural legitimacy, there is no need to convince anyone that a drug to treat it is necessary. It will come to him as his own idea.”

Does that sum up the American addiction to prescription drugs, or am I crazy? Check out this piece by Dr. Carl Elliott, author of White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine: “How to brand a disease — and sell a cure”