Placebo: Medical Treatment

What is a Placebo Effect? When is the placebo effect used, why is the placebo effect used? Who dose the placebo effect work on? Is the placebo effect only for sick people? Is the placebo effect a drug, a trick, or a cure? Is the placebo effect used often or regularly? Dose the placebo effect work? Is the placebo effect useful? All of these questions will be addressed regarding placebo effect, from what is the placebo effect, why the placebo effect is used, who the placebo effect will work on, when the placebo effect is used, as well as the effect the placebo effect has on the body and on the mind, as well as the method of the placebo effect that would be used if necessary. Just like any from or kind of treatment the placebo effect has its limitation. The placebo effect will not always work, and the placebo will not work on everyone.

When people are ill, the only thing they want is to feel better. The traditional way to achieve this in the western world was to attend a doctor and receive medication. However, more attention is now being paid to other forms of treatments. One of these is using the placebo effect as a treatment.

Placebos have been used in clinical trials since the eighteenth century but did not become a research topic until the late twentieth century (van Haselen, 2013). Most often when using placebos in clinical trials it is to determine whether or not the active agent has more effect on a patient than the placebo by providing each to the same number of recipients. The trials are almost always double blinded, this means that both person giving the drug and the person receiving it are unaware whether or not it is active so that good care and relationships must be present in the recipients at all times (Tavel, 2014). Ovosi, Ibrahim, & Bello-Ovosi (2017) declared “The choice between placebo and active controls in clinical trials affects the quality of the result as well as the ethical and scientific acceptability by both the public and regulatory bodies. It has, therefore, continued to generate discuss among researchers” (para. 3). This goes against the autonomy of a patient which is the right for a person to

A Placebo is something, like a tablet, that might be given to a patent by a drug testing group to see whether or not a new drug on the market actually works. Generally, half of the test group is given the “real” drug that might do anything from treat headaches to reduce acne. The other half of the group, without knowing, are given a fake pill that might only contain sugar but they believe they are getting the real thing. From the results of the two groups scientists can tell whether or not the drug has a real effect rather than people believing that it will. This is how science finds the drugs that work among the stuff that doesn't. This is great news from the public because that means we always great medicine that will work as described and not a fake box of sugar pills. The Nocebo effect is

The author continues to demonstrate how the placebo effect works by comparing it to the famous biological study by Ivan Pavlov. In Pavlov’s experiment, dogs are conditioned to respond to a specific stimulus and eventually begin to respond to the same stimulus in the same way all the time. Bjerklie explains that, “as far as the placebo effect is concerned, we may as well be those impressionable canines.” What Bjerklie means is that the human mind has the ability to be conditioned to expect certain outcomes. The placebo effect builds on the human minds ability to be conditioned and an individual’s faith in the healthcare providers it choses to visit. Overtime the human mind has come to believe that if given a medication that is suppose to have a positive effect on a specific pathology, it will in fact have an positive effect.

The study subjects were gathered from various ICU centers at various institutions, which is appropriate for study given the study objective and what the study was aiming to examine and determine (using a study drug vs. placebo in an ICU environment). Inclusion criteria were appropriate to assess the effects of the anti-pyretic acetaminophen due to their specificity of including those patients who were febrile with an infection that had been initiated with antimicrobial therapy. The exclusion criteria was extensive and included patient characteristics and disease states that may have skewed the true effect of acetaminophen. It was appropriate to limit these patients with the exclusion criteria from receiving treatment since their comorbidities

Medical treatments happen around the world in many different countries. This can be for illnesses such as cancer or influenza. There are other medical treatments, too. A placebo is a medical treatment that is ineffective. It is ineffective because the treatment that they’re given is completely false. Those personnel that prescribe drugs (doctors, psychiatrists, etc.) give placebo medical treatments to those whose

to question whether it is ethical for clinicians to prescribe placebos as medication in clinical practice. Through defining placebo and placebo effect and determining whether placebos should be prescribed in clinical practice, I argue that in limited cases it is ethical for

The placebo (pla-see-bow) effect is the act of making things appear like they work like they're said to. Researchers use the placebo effect when testing out new medications and their effectiveness by telling everyone they're getting the same medicine, and giving a certain amount of people a fake treatment to test and others getting the real deal, neither parties knowing a difference. The placebo effect occurs when people's expectations or beliefs influence or determine their experience in a given situation (P.54 OpenStax). Some people's mind will make them believe that the fake treatment is working for them, when in actuality it is not. Before the experiment, the control group should tell everyone the medicine they're all said to be getting

A placebo substance is an inert substance that should not directly cause any positive or negative changes in our health. These pills have no medicine in them and the patient gets well. To understand the placebo affect you need to understand the power of the brain. More than half of the population appears to have a positive experience from the placebo effect. Why doesn’t the rest of the population respond in the same way? The human brain is capable of preventing even the best well thought-out drug, medical procedure, therapy or nutritional program from working. Then why do we need supplements of medicine to feel better or reverse disease? Most diseases are related to nutrient deficiencies, chemicals, parasite or metal toxicity.

A placebo effect is a real response to a fake treatment. For example, you give someone a nonalcoholic beer and the response is that they act drunk. The whole point of a placebo effect is to make it seem like an actual treatment. If it does not seem like a real treatment then it leads to confounding, where the effects of two variables cannot be identified. In an experiment, researchers must have an experimental and a control

In conclusion, the purpose of the Code is to guide institutions and researchers in responsible research practice. The Code also promotes integrity in research and explains what is expected of researchers by the community. Therapists have ethical obligation to care for all patients with utmost care. The use of placebo has long been controversial, and the ethics of placebos have been debated frequently in history. When Hope used placebo group, it will only accumulate ethical concerns in her therapy and research procedures. Her placebo group will never get optimal treatment for their treatment is psychological and without actual effects on the condition being treated.

AIDS, Diabetes, and Ebola are all diseases that cannot be cured, but what if there is a cure; something that can make people think they are healing. Some medical doctors tend to give, what is commonly known as the “sugar pill,” to patients with incurable diseases and told the patient that the “pill” would heal them while the patient does not know the “medicine” is fake. According to many scientists and other doctors, this way of healing patients should not be used. Therefore, the placebo was named unethical. Since the placebo and the placebo effect is debated as unethical, scientists have begun to research many other options in place of a placebo, which include enhancing effective treatments based on the placebo effect, steroids, and advanced surgeries based on the issue.

As scientists and doctors performed researches about the human body, potions and blood-lettings are no longer considered effective by most of the people. In spite of this, eighty percent of the current commonly performed medical treatments are still not proven to be effective. In this article, Dr. Brown explained about the placebo effect, in which something that is not a medical treatment actually helps with the recovery. Placebo is widely used in double-blind experiments to determine the true effectiveness of medicines and treatments. For example, in a double-blind experiment about depression, nearly half of the 22 patients who have a normal level of cortisol felt better after they took placebo. It is important to point out, however, those

The mind has often been referred to as the organ of consciousness. Daily functions such as thinking, breathing, and most any task we do rely heavily on use of this precious organ. However, through the use of placebos, it is becoming clear that the mind may have an even greater influence on our daily lives, influencing our perceptions of well- being. The placebo, which is Latin for to please, is a sugar-pill that is given under the guise of being a medication thought to treat an ailment. The use of placebos has shown us that the mind has tremendous potential to induce physiological changes in our body based solely on its perceptions. In example, as we swallow a sugar pill thinking