To be sure, some people did think (briefly) lobotomies were a "cure," but there was ample evidence from early on that it was no cure (a whopping 25% of all lobotomy patients died as a result of brain infections caused by unsterile equipment). If Joe really thought a lobotomy was a bonna fide cure and not simply using it as a tool of social control, why did he exile his own daughter from the rest of the family, banishing her to a remote asylum and never contacting her again? As far as oxycontin goes, there's a great book I read that I think you might like, called Synthetic Panics. It's about how governments create moral panics surrounding various drugs by whipping up mass hysteria by using religious symbolism and nomenclature. With oxycontin I go back to the principle of "deliberate abuse and misuse is not proof of danger." The drug is abused and diverted by addicts, simply because their actual drugs of choice are unavailable to them. Were their drugs of choice legal, no one would have even heard of oxycontin. Also, actual addiction and overdose deaths are grossly overhyped and misrepresented by the media. Even in the reports the media refers to in order to bolster its wild claims of "drug epidemic" all prescription drug deaths combined don't amount to more than a fourth of the total. I have no faith whatever in the sources or the numbers cited by U.S. government agencies. They are mostly bogus stats based on junk science. I read one government report that came to a very alarming conclusion: 80% of all ER visits are caused by marijuana! Oh my goodness! But as always the devil is in the details. According to the bad science of the poorly constructed study methodology, anyone who came to the ER for any reason was given a blood test and if they had any amount of pot in their bloodstreams...well, you guessed it, marijuana was listed as the "cause" of whatever they came in for...even a kid who broke his arm playing basketball. It would be funny were it not so manipulative, and had our drug laws not caused so much harm already. The CIA did the same thing with LSD; they tried to weaponize it, used it to cause deliberate harm, then used their own malicious actions as a marketing too to try to convince the public that psychedelics "cause" people to go nuts and jump out of windows. Sorry for the tangent. I geek out on these subjects, and having studied the history of (and worked in) psychiatric hospitals, I don't trust their good intensions (though many good folks work in these places). From the early 20th century until the de-institutionalization movement of the 70's and 80's, these places were nothing more than warehouses for noncomformists and others embarrassing to their families or the public order. I hope Rosemary was treated better at her nunnery/asylum than she was by her own family. Again, thanks for posting.