i've yet to see anything that supports that other than a single study...Goodoldkenny wrote:I know what you mean but just look it up.cambod wrote: I can't imagine someone who doesn't take it regularly not knowing if they took 20mg.
It is quoted most often in discussions about placebo effect because they have more or less proven that it only works if you know you've taken it.
Sounds strange but there's heaps on the internet about it.
Personally, I prefer 10 beers and a few shots at Cavern and damn me, I know I've had them.
KennyF
usually unreproducible results aren't considered results. Valium is given all over the US, without the patient knowing, as a sedative before minor procedures... always with effective results.
possibly on the anxiety aspect, as per that 1 study, but all of it's other properties (sedative, muscle relaxant [people having a poisoning spasm while unconscious aren't having a placebo effect]) hold up to that argument pretty solidly. to comment about small doses being used would hold true as placebo as well... in fact this isn't an uncommon method of delivering placebo... give them the drug, but in a below effect dose.