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most urgent issue for the new president and congress. our first prize high school winner is a 12th grader from royal oak, michigan area jarod clark is a student at royal high -- royal oak high school. his documentary on pharmaceutical price gouging is entitled "enough is enough." take a look. >> you do not have to talk to somebody very long to figure out that they have to have this. it is not optional. >> not buying an epipen could lead to an allergic reaction that could lead to anything from a hospital stay to death. four people a day will diet they do not get the proper dosage of epinephrine. i know one guy who carries one with him all the time. >> here is a drug that has been on the market for 100 years, costs roughly one dollar. but the price of this has gone from roughly $99 for one to more than $600 for two of them.

in a very short amount of time. >> have you ever felt guilty or felt pangs of guilt making such a large sum of money? >> i have to sit there and take a prescription to the counter to a mother whose child has suffered from anaphylactic shock, and watch her cry and have to call family members to get money to pay for this medication. >> more people will die. >> $600. >> do you ever feel guilty? >> it is not optional. >> the time is come to say very loudly and clearly that it is time to stop. the greed of the from cynical industry is killing americans and making many of them much sicker than they otherwise would of been. 2016, pharmaceutical companies were under attack for supposedly price gouging. one of these is mylan, the maker of puppy pen. epipen is an automatic injector

of epinephrine. >> epinephrine is for life threatening allergic reactions. >> they can stop it pretty quickly. >> they have gone from $200 for pack to $600 for a two pack. in about six years. >> we have been carrying at the pens for decades. we used to spend a couple hundred dollars to outfit the epipen'spartment with and all of a sudden we are spending $350 a piece. the county medical control of authority designed a special study where we could train all of our basic emt's and first responders on how to give epinephrine the old-fashioned way. we injected as an intramuscular injection. other counties in the state want to model our system and create their own studies in their own counties to save significant costs.

havemebody that does not the money will use an old one, they will not have the ability to have one if someone needs that products. >> some decide they will not carry it, that the risk is not worth the award. >> if i did not have the epipen right then i would have been dead. royalan lee, a student of oak high school experienced her first severe allergic reaction. it was her junior year prom and turned out to have potentially life-threatening consequences. >> i could have lost my life. ms. powell who is one of the administrators was holding my hand and telling me it was ok. >> megan came tolife-threatenin. >> i could where the administrators were sitting and indicated she had been having some recent allergy issues have not had before. >> i had a headache at the dance so i took an ibuprofen. an hour after i had a little that a little pain in my i

started. >> forgot her a seat and told her we were going to contact 911 and get some medical assistance. >> i was out in the hallway and my eyes decided -- started swelling. >> we could see physical visibly that it was getting worse. >> my eyes were completely shut. >> we waited for ms to arrive, it was obvious her situation was worsening. this filing was becoming more severe interest earnings to comment on it was beginning to be more difficult to breathe and she was beginning to cough. shot me withdic an epi right away. taken to the hospital. >> it is clear epipen's are a the priceg drug and has risen above reasonable levels. >> with the fe pen, the price

theease is not matching increase in demand. it is clearly gouging. the issue will be with the free market by creating a different route and illuminating the demand for epipen's, that is when you will see this stop. in terms of being a life-saving drug that summary has a stranglehold on a mac it will be a different story. >> epipen is not the only case we have seen involving large pharmaceutical price gorging -- gouging. really -- shkreli took the fifth amendment. respectfully -- i respect fully declined to answer your question. >> east texas issues come and go. after epipen there will be a price gouging issue with another drug.

something next drug could be not ken. >> narcan turns off a narcotic insider body. the classic ms video with giving the drug and he wakes up. every ms andry for police agency to carry and people can have them in their home, all of a sudden the price is skyrocketing. >> we are a capitalistic society and i believe in that. health care costs have skyrocketed to the point where someone has to put a cap on them somehow. >> it is unacceptable that while millions of americans cannot afford the prescription drugs they need the top three pharmaceutical companies made a combined $45 billion in profit last year. the american people should not have to go without the medication they need because congress does not have the courage to stand off the -- one of the most powerful lobbying operations here on capitol hill and that is the pharmaceutical industry.

the time has come to say loudly and clearly that enough is enough, the greed of the pharmaceutical companies is killing americans. >> to watch all the prize-winning documentaries in this years studentcam competition visit studentcam.org. >> the british parliament approved a measure to hold general elections on june 8. the prime minister theresa may spoke about the elections at the house of commons during prime minister's questions. she also spoke about the uk's commitment to nato and the british exit from the european union. from london, this is 45 minutes. >> order, questions to the prime minister.