Tred,

I agree completely. But who knows? Maybe some miraculous wonderpill will be developed in the next decade that will be effective, non-addictive, and not subject to the "politics of pain." We can dream, anyway. I guess the excuse that all meds are so expensive because pharmaceutical companies need to maintain their research and deveopment departments does have some validity. Maybe they'll come up with something. Like I said, we can dream.