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To: Sea Otter who wrote (657)	6/19/2008 12:49:52 PM
From: one_less	of 3816

Mommy's little helper... "Who would be so stupid to spend £3 on placebos for kids?" Kaitlin Moran ======================================== Placebo medicine for kids A fruit-flavoured placebo pill, that tricks small children into thinking they are getting medical treatment, is to be launched in the UK, the Guardian reported today. "Obecalp" - it's "placebo" spelt backwards - will retail at £3 for 50 pills, and says it will "Soothe the pains of childhood" without resorting to drugs. I have two, directly opposing views on this. The first is that teaching children that the answer is always found in a pill, or a drug, will raise a generation of codeine-gobbling kids, thrilled and comforted by the thought of syringes and medicine-bottles. The second is WHO WOULD BE SO STUPID to spend £3 on 50 pills, when they could just give them a Tic-Tac? I do it at least six times a week, whenever they get "growing pains/brain ache/a funny feeling in my bottom." And as for calling it "Obecalp" - you might as well call it "KcirTasti". Imagine what will happen when they find out they've been given fake drugs by the people they trust most, and that the truth was taunting them on the bottle's label. They'll think they're in the plot to "Lost." timesonline.typepad.com

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