Posted by Marty on August 17, 2008, at 9:23:25
In reply to Re: Placebo in Psychiatric Clinical Trials, posted by Cecilia on August 16, 2008, at 7:27:20
> Most have so many side effects that people can easily figure out if they're on the real thing.
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Then it would be interesting to use a drug based placebo that would too induce some side effects. Many peer reviewed studies could find a drug which would be proven to have no effect on every aspect of the mental while inducing some -light- but easily detectable side effects. That would be interesting to see how much more placebo responders we would get with that drug based-placebo. Imagine.. some ADs clinical trials got so slim difference between real placebo vs the ADs that we could almost be sure that in many studies the placebo would be better than the AD.I guess we'll never see such studies as they would have adverse consequences for the pharmaceutical industry.
/\/\arty
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