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• Clonidine is now finding more use as an active placebo for narcotics as well.
• Researchers Irving Kirsch and Thomas Moore have contested the pharmacological activity of antidepressants in the relief of depression, and state that the evidence is most consistent a role as active placebos.
• Eighty patients would be given an " active placebo, " a drug that has physiological effects but is not hallucinogenic, or LSD under close supervision of a psychiatrist or trained mental health worker, Dr . Pope said.
• Testing from the late 1950s onwards on narcotic analgesics like morphine also has used dicyclomine as an active placebo, and on some occasions it was reported to cause the Straub mouse tail reaction, as do most narcotics.
• "This was a highly active placebo arm and we still found an effect over and above that, " says Margolin, who notes that the effect of acupuncture was as good as that from drug treatment for cocaine addiction.
• In this experiment, ten students from Andover Newton Theological School were given 30 mg psilocybin and ten an active placebo ( niacin-vitamin B 3 ) in a religious setting ( a Good Friday service ) to see whether entheogens could help facilitate a genuine religious experience.