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Woman hand with pills on, spilling pills out of bottle on dark background.

Medicine’s Ryan Marino discusses fentanyl and the nocebo effect

Dispatches from the Overdose Crisis: The fentanyl exposure overdose myth

Columbus Alive: Ryan Marino, assistant professor at the School of Medicine, said fentanyl doesn’t act in the ways often described in news stories about overdoses, explaining that it’s more likely the perception of harm, known as the nocebo effect (the opposite of the placebo effect).