How to Force an Expensive Drug on the Unsuspecting...

Fascinating article that gives a quick history of the marketing (not medical) efforts of Big Pharma to push off dangerous, expensive drugs:

Drug research: To test or to tout?

It's a good article, though a point missing from this is that none of these drugs actually cure anything that has an proven reality.

So, while the marketing ploys are criminal and should be prosecuted, the bigger picture is that the whole question is a sham: none of these drugs (neither the old nor the new) cure anything that has any identifiable physical basis.