2007-01-05 22:50:46 · 4 answers · asked by PB 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
What are the ethical issues? Wouldn't not using the placebo trial be unethical? How can you tell if a drug makes a difference or not unless you trial it with a placebe?
2007-01-05 22:52:39 · answer #1 · answered by Gone fishin' 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What ethical issues? A placebo is an inert substance. Anyway, it's the way experimentation for drug efficacy is done: One group will get the drug, one group gets the placebo, one group (the control) gets nothing. Placebos are commonly used in medicine to treat chronic pain, trying to get the body to produce its own endorphins. I've seen placebos work pretty well, if you tell a convincing enough story before hand.
2007-01-05 22:56:34 · answer #2 · answered by link955 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it's the only way to determine the efficacy of the drug that is being tested. A blinded randomised cross-over trial would be the most efficient means of doing this.
2007-01-05 23:10:34 · answer #3 · answered by ratbag 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
www.FDA.gov has all the answers or ways to the answers you need for that question or you could pay a lawyer for their opinion.
2007-01-05 22:53:28 · answer #4 · answered by Steve 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋