The phrase "active medication" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in medical contexts to refer to a medication that is currently being administered or is effective in treating a condition.
Example: "The patient is currently on active medication for their hypertension, which has shown significant improvement in their blood pressure levels."
Alternatives: "current medication" or "ongoing treatment".
The adverse events in placebo groups mirrored the adverse events expected of the active medication studied, confirming that pretrial suggestions induce the adverse events in placebo-treated patients.
Subjects were blinded to treatment throughout the study, having been told that any time during the study they may receive active medication or placebo.
All included patients were on medical treatment with an average of 1.11 ± 1.13 active medication substances.
See Table 1 for the daily dosages of atypical antipsychotic and adjunctive medications administered during the active medication phase.
Sedative and gastrointestinal side effects were reported more commonly by patients on active medication.
Eligible participants were otherwise healthy women, aged 18 35 years and free of psychoactive or autonomically active medication.
During PCDR we would, initially, be given standard doses of an active medication which, of course, induces a biochemical change in the body.
Participants in randomized controlled trials (RCT) for CRF comparing active medication to placebo controls often show high placebo responses that are indistinguishable from active component6,7,8.
Since 1969, at least eight experiments exposed asthma patients to multiple administrations of placebo given with deceptive suggestions that the "treatment" was an active medication.
Participants trained on the task either with active medication or placebo on the day of training, crossed-over between study conditions.
A participant's 'belief' in whether they were allocated to active medication or placebo treatment is likely informed by their expectations and experience of a clinical trial.
