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Dependence on a Placebo: A Case Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Oldrich Vinar
Oldrich Vinar*
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Research Institute, Prague 8, Czechoslovakia
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There is ample evidence that placebo can cause most, if not all, of the effects due to any active drug (Beecher, 1962; Honigfeld, 1964). A detailed case history of apparent dependence on a placebo can be added to these, in the form of the following clinical experience.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 115 , Issue 527 , October 1969 , pp. 1189 - 1190
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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