Nir Eyal
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The neighbor rushes him to the emergency room.
This is not a riddle, by the way.
There's no riddle.
It is a study.
It's really happened.
He's rushed into the emergency room.
He collapses on the floor.
And the last thing he says before he passes out, he says, I took all my pills.
I took all my pills.
The doctors and nurses rush him into the operating room.
They connect him to the heart rate monitors.
His heart rate is plummeting.
His blood pressure is dangerously low.
He's passed out.
And they look at the pill bottle and they try and figure out what did he take?
What medicine did he take that caused him to have these overdose symptoms?
And it doesn't say what medication he took.
It just says it's an antidepressant, but it doesn't say what type of medicine.
What it does have is a phone number.
Because Mr. A was in a clinical trial for these antidepressants.