You Can Get Addicted to a Pill That Does Nothing

CGP Grey · 11.2M views · 2013 · 6:41

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Why the open web links it

Explores how placebo effects can lead to addiction even when a pill has no active ingredients.

Linked by 13 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including wikipedia.org, 99percentinvisible.org, videacesky.cz, alchemi.st, biotutormike.com.

Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including Nocebo.