9. ‘Til Death Do Us Part. The old days of AZT “monotherapy” are long gone. Now companies vie with one another to add their products to the “cocktails” prescribed to the HIV-positive. Here, a drug manufacturer urges readers to make sure their individualized cocktail includes the company’s product, “once daily Sustiva.” Commitment to a medication is equated to commitment to a partner. The cocktail therapy will last a lifetime—but will the marriage? Following the medical mock marriage, a “honeymoon period” often precedes the onset of medicinal side effects, which for this drug are said to include drowsiness, insomnia, “unusual dreams” (i.e., nightmares), severe depression, birth defects, and other “serious and/or life-threatening” conditions.