Yes, I'd be surprised if the room you're sitting in wasn't filled with people who could give me an example of being given a drug, having a side effect from it and not being able to take it. Or maybe it was partially efficacious. That runs across the full gamut of medications we have for all the common diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, asthma—name the disease. There are numbers of people who find the side effects intolerable. They either stop taking their medication or are back at the doctor's office and saying that it isn't working well or it doesn't agree with them because of x, y or z, so another prescription is given.
It's particularly true, as Dr. Shackelford mentioned, about vets—and many non-vets, for that matter—who are on multiple medications with a lot of drug-drug interactions. That's where I was going with this when I mentioned why so many people go to naturopathic, herbal, acupuncture and a whole bunch of other unconventional treatments, if you like—because of the relative failure in being able to fulfill the promises made by pharmaceutical companies and doctors. We're now seeing that alternatives seem to be as important to veterans as they are to the rest of us.