Sugar pill, inactive drug/medicine/substance...
Pla - SEE - bow
The word for an inactive medication, used mostly as a blind in clinical trials, is a placebo.
The doctor prescribed a placebo to the patient in order to study the effects of the medication.
inactive medicine, sugar pill
The Placebo Effect
Placebo in Russian is "плацебо" (pronounced "plakseebo"). It refers to a substance or treatment with no therapeutic effect, given to a patient to simulate the psychological effects of a real medicine.
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the pill that represented the placebo
Placebo pills are just pills with no active ingredient in them. they are just psychological medication which does often work. they are given to patients who think they are ill but are not, it is just in their mind, so they take the placebo pill thinking it will make them better and very often it works. The word Placebo means fake. There for a Placebo pill must be a "fake" pill which basically means an empty pill.
The word drug may not have a precise antonym, but placebo comes pretty close.
Placebo - band - was created in 1994.
No. Why would someone make a placebo that you can die from?