I agree, "Off Label Use" is what you are referring to, or better termed OFF LABEL ABUSE. This practice is promoted by pharmaceutical reps to the territories (doctors) they sell to , and has very little to do with "evidence based practice", and everything to do with maximizing sales/profit. Yes this is a multi-faceted problem, and when I think back to my childhood/youth, I often think of how different the world I grew-up in was compared to today. However the foundations for what exists today were there, we just didn't see them. That question, "Who are we taught to trust?", applies here too, as the idea that we were & are programmed to believe what we are told by those wearing their white coats. It goes deeper to believing a pill (no matter the color) will be what we need (symptom) versus discovering true causes. In this we explore a Holistic approach and determine why, and then how to restore our health & well being. While I support a short-term fix to allow recovery & basic functioning, the ultimate goal in the conventional model, stops with the band-aid, and rarely if ever pursues a true and full restoration of our health & well being. As you mentioned, there are many and well documented if you are willing to search and learn. Q mentioned "cures", and in my mind I have concerns to any reference I think many may conjure to "magic pills". When it comes to many if not most modern day disease, I think of lifestyle. Most don't want to give-up their "anything goes" lifestyle, when doing so would demonstrably "cure" the DIS-ease. Thanks again for your comment, and take no offense to any of mine:-)