re legality of placebos calzone athena mit edu wrote how is it that placebos are legal it would seem to me that if as a patient you purchase a drug you ve been prescribed and it s just sugar or whatever there s a few legal complications that arise if you have been diagnosed with a condition and you aren t given accepted treatment for it it seems like intentional medical malpractice a placebo is an accepted treatment at times a placebo should fall legally under the label of quackery why not why should it placebos are effective under certain circumstances that s why they re used actually i don t know know anyone who has actually gotten a sugar pill i don t know how it could be done since prescription drugs are always labeled and it s easy enough to find out what s in a pill if you have the name 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 getting what you pay for deceptive bait and switch to an extreme false advertising what if mcdonalds didn t put pure beef in their hamburgers i m not sure what you mean by this what do you think you re paying for you re not entitled to a prescription drug just because you pay for a doctor s appointment jack hamilton kd ttl jfh netcom com po box sf ca usa
