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To be more specific, that there is a placebo effect for all pills, and pills considered efficacious have the largest placebo effect, so the efficacy of adderall in aided by the placebo effect.
This placebo effect is increased also because of the intentionality imbued in the object. You go to the socially prescribed expert/authority on disease because you can’t study well and he tells you that this will cure your issues. He tells you the name of the drug, maybe gives you a pamphlet, and then you pick it up. You take it with the intentionality that this cures your issues, while remembering the problem for which you requested help.
So cutting into the placebo effect will hurt. Patients are no longer thinking “this is the cure for my inattention”, but “this is an unreliable thing they may not be effective” — you’re now looking for evidence that it is ineffective rather than evidence of desired changes
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