re legality of placebos in article jfhc bg y d x netcom com jfh netcom com jack hamilton writes actually i don t know know anyone who has actually gotten a sugar pill 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 michael a covington associate research scientist artificial intelligence programs mcovingt ai uga edu the university of georgia phone athens georgia u s a amateur radio n tmi
