The Placebo Effect

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"# The Placebo Effect Nineteen seventy-eight. A lab at UC San Francisco. A patient recovering from oral surgery gets handed a sugar pill. Their pain... drops by half. Then researcher Jon Levine does something nobody's tried before. He injects them with naloxone — a drug that blocks your brain's natural painkillers. The kind paramedics use to reverse opioid overdoses. And just like that... the pain comes roaring back. Wait. The sugar pill wasn't doing anything. Except... it was doing *exact..."