From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)
Subject: Re: Legality of placebos?
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In article <jfhC6BG8y.D2x@netcom.com> jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton) writes:
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>Actually, I don't know know anyone who has actually gotten a "sugar pill".
[...]
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>It's more common to prescribe a drug which is effective for something, just
>not for what you have.  Antibiotics for viral infections are the most
>common such placebo. 

And presumably this is a matter of degree; it must be common to prescribe
a drug that has _some_ chance of giving _some_ benefit, but not a high
probability of it, and/or not a large benefit.  Right?

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