"The doctor lost his license when it was found that the pills for depression he had been giving to his patients were actually a placebo- just a sugar pill."
Context Clues:
He gave his patients just sugar pills instead of the correct medication. Probably means fake.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Placebo
–noun,plural-bos, -boes.
1.
Medicine/Medical, Pharmacology.
a.
a substance having no pharmacological effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine.
b.
a substance having no pharmacological effect but administered as a control in testing experimentally or clinically the efficacy of a biologically active preparation.
The study is a randomized, placebo -controlled trial with 108 patients over 12 sites.
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