An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
And that's the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwriter you know how to deal with people setting up hate websites, or people being obsessed with you and crying when you touch them, but you don't, and you just have to deal with.
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