We all have heard how effective placebos are for short term studies. What got me curious though, was how do they work in the long run? Can we deliberately use that information to support other drugs that aren't that effective? I am curious about how psychological beliefs could help people with chronic pain make better use of non-narcotic or other pain medicines that are not as effective as higher dose medicines.
2007-05-30 19:49:28 · 5 answers · asked by Jeanne B 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
There are very many....Its interesting that they DO have serious applications in real medicine...as the other answererers told you, in order for them to be effective, the patient must NOT know they are placebos...
In research and double blind studies, not the patien nor the nurse that gives them know it...they are coded, and at the end of the research, the coordinator can tell which is which..
Oddly enough the RED capsules seem to work better for the control of moderate dizziness and moderate pain....
Using a placebo is NOT cheating the patient,...in detox programs they MUST be used...
The studies of placebos have been there for nore that 49 years (since the times of Freud) and still in use..
For more detailed info about your questions, ask placebo trials at
www.pubmed.com
or
www,medscape.com
Good luck
2007-06-05 19:53:50 · answer #1 · answered by Sehr_Klug 50 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the placebo effect to work, the subject needs to not know it's a placebo. The subject expects results from the drug, and that expectation can affect the body in subtle ways which can make the results come true. There is no reason to believe the length of time involved would make any difference, other than the risk that the subject will find out it's a placebo.
Placebos are used as controls in both short term and long term studies. Therefore, the difference in their effects can be derived from those studies.
2007-05-30 19:56:38 · answer #2 · answered by x4294967296 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. the only thank you to legitimately try them could be a "undertaking study" in which you're taking a set of vaccinated human beings and a set of unvaccinated human beings and then demonstrate them to the illness virus. This has never ever been finished. you will discover that vaccination is fairly a pseudo-technological know-how that doesn't stay as much as the hype or claims by potential of the manufacturers. while somebody is vaccinated and nevertheless gets the illness they declare that the vaccination could have been a bad batch, the guy already had the illness, and so on. there is often some excuse. meanwhile, the manufacturers have vigorously tried to get law handed to allow them to steer sparkling of criminal duty for injury and have been valuable in many circumstances. There are actually not any impartial self reliant analyze. basically a set of pseudoscientific crap.
2016-10-30 07:38:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is called placebo in some studies are vitamin preparations over the counter.
Some are sugar plus tablet/gelcap fillers.
I think that "placebos" are done in conjunction with a "real" pill.
The very reason for blind studies with a placebo is that they effect is done in measurable time, not over an indefinite lengh of time.
The short answer is NO, what for?
2007-05-30 20:00:21 · answer #4 · answered by QuiteNewHere 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you will gain a lot of weight thry are sugar pills.
2007-05-30 19:52:46 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋