11.   Sporn led a clinical trial funded by the government that showed that Neurontin worked no better than a sugar pill for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

12.   Still, she wished some in the group had been given sugar pills to see if they got the same results.

13.   The only prescription drug plan that either Bush or Gore will ever pass is one that gives out sugar pills.

14.   The placebo effect is a well-documented phenomenon in which people experience an improvement in their condition in response to a phony therapy, such as a sugar pill.

15.   They sell bathtub mixtures, ranging from sugar pills to toxic concoctions, as genuine drugs.

16.   But a sugar pill worked for these same men a third of the time, the FDA cautioned.

17.   In addition to the medications they were already on, half were given the beta blocker and half were given a sugar pill.

18.   It is because of this knowledge that medical doctors do give patients sugar placebo pills.

19.   It found the medicine is no more likely than sugar pills to seriously harm the heart during the two or three months that most people took it.

20.   The trials showed a higher mortality rate among patients who took the drug, compared with patients who received a sugar pill, or placebo.