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WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- A U.S. study found some doctors regularly prescribe active drugs such as sedatives and antibiotics as placebo treatments.
The study, led by Dr. Jon Tilburt from the National Institutes of Health and collaborators at Harvard and the University of Chicago, said 57 percent of the general internal medicine physicians and rheumatologists who responded to a survey reported prescribing placebo treatments on a regular basis.
The findings are published in the British Medical Journal.
Researchers said the most commonly prescribed placebo treatments were over-the-counter painkillers and vitamins. Physicians also reported using antibiotics, sedatives and sugar pills.
The physicians in the study said they did not believe they were behaving unethically by using placebos or not being upfront with their patients about doing so, the report said.
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