Placebo it is not
Convicted child murderer, Ian Brady, is appealing against the diagnosis that he is mentally ill, which might in itself be proof of his mental illness. He wants to be moved from Ashworth high-security psychiatric hospital where, according to him: They give you false drugs and turn you into a zombie
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No, Mr Brady, false drugs don't do anything of the kind; it's real drugs that do that. And some people will pay good money for drugs that turn them into zombies.