House later realizes that she is suffering from poisoning from her use of flu pills containing amantadine, along with the kidney failure caused by the crash.
Treatments, pills, phycologists, hospitals and gaols, are the solution for a rationalistic society when the big, big and horrible source of trouble is mention accidentally.
She is addicted to sleeping pills, absorbed in the shallow dramas played on her parlor walls (flat-panel televisions), and indifferent to the oppressive society around her.