drugs that would set policy that the city continue to negotiate with the drug companies to reduce theosts and ask the state lovers to reduce the drug prices by 1/3rd if you vicinity you want to make it city policy to reduced the prescription drugs and i want the city to ask state and federal representatives to sponsor legislation for drugs brings paid by government if you vote not. i'm here with the lady ms. cell we're joined by the former member of the president and on opponent to the measure. thank you for being here. i'd like to start with ms. kelly. why do you feel this proposition is so important. and a well, this is the first in the nation on drug pricing. this is a policy that will put san francisco in the forefront of fighting for lower priced drugs. it's very important we do that. i know for a fact a sister who has parkinson's and a friend who has diabetes. sometimes, people have to decide between into custody and drugs. this allows tour at the to go on record to ask for fair pricing on drugs. to bargain for fair pricing on drugs the way the veterans administration does. it o

what's in that drug. we've seen even in the past that drugs that came in through canada certain cancer drugs sold to physicians and physicians couldn't verify the authenticity. >> reporter: the response we get from pharma and pharmacist's association you don't know for sure how reliable these farm service and it's too late if somebody gets sick. does that concern you >> with our experience, the pharmacies that we're having fill these prescriptions are licensed retail pharmacies. if you're getting, for example crestor, you get lot number, date koerkd everything is on the package. you can trace the pedigree like you can in the u.s. >> reporter: he says he knows what he's talking about because he's also cfo of hardwood company's sibling company. it makes medical supplies. >> we love lots, date codes, expiration. we make fda registered devices here. we have fda audits. we understand how that process works. >> reporter: he says he hopes the state of maine prevails in court so more of his neighbors can take adv

you must be looking at the brand name drug. it can't be that expensive. >>> and the global gender gap. where the u.s. ranks. >> the u.s. doesn't fare very well compared to the very rich countries, and in some countries, many poorer countries do better than we do. >>> next on "pbs newshour weekend." >>> "pbs newshour weekend" is made possible by -- . >>> that's why we are your retirement company. additional support is provided by -- and by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> good evening, thanks for joining us. new cancellations at los angeles international airport day after the fatal shooting of an unarmed airport security officer. some passengers who fled the scene in panic were allowed to return to collect belongings today. an fbi investigation into the incident is under way. the alleged shooter who was wounded in an exchange with authorities was identified as a 23-year-old

efforts by drug companies to introduce their drugs into interstate commerce for unapproved uses subvert those laws. likewise, payment of kickbacks undermines the independent medical judgment of healthcare providers. it creates financial incentives to increase the use of certain drugs, potentially putting the help of some patients at risk. every time pharmaceutical companies engage in this type of conduct, they corrupt medical decisions by healthcare providers. they jeopardize the public health and they take money out of the taxpayers pockets. this settlement demonstrates that the department of justice and health and human services are working alongside a variety of federal, state, and local partners will sibley not tolerate such activities. no company is above the law. my colleagues and i are determined to keep moving forward abiding by the facts and the law to hold these corporations accountable. we want to safeguard the american people and prevent this conduct from occurring in the future. this announcement marks another step forward in our strategic, comprehensive, and effective appr

and this would insure that generic drugs, new drugs, over-the-counter drugs, any kind of drug we regulate have the exact same quality requirements across the industry. >> okay. then i want to commend the fda on meeting its hiring goals for the fiscal year. and i know the difficulties associated with implementing a brand new program, but how many ftes have you hired to date, and how many do you plan to hire in the first two quarters of next year, and given the backlog of pending -- [inaudible] can you give the committee an estimate on how many of these new hires will be dedicated to review? i've got others, but let's start with that. [laughter] >> um, we've -- okay. we've hired upward of 300 people. i mean, that number changes every day. we're aggressively hiring, and we exceeded our goal which was 25% of the total number of people that were to be hired, okay? as far as -- we've acted on 900, i think, of the backlog in different way, so we've reduced that pending backlog, but it's still formidable. i wouldn't, you know, diminish that. and we have done a lot of things to try and aggressivel

so in terms of how dude drug cartels get these drugs -- so in terms of how do drug cartels get theserugs, somebody gave me a very interesting comment. harping back to -- harkening back to florida with these pill mills, there are gangs it will pay folks who will go to these clinics to get prescriptions. they will literally say i will give you $20 or $40 or $100 or whatever to get an appointment at these clinics. then, when you get these drugs, you get to keep some of them and you give me the rest of them. so they gather up a large supply of these drugs which then moved to other parts of the country. network. the part of the networking part of the availability of these drugs really does depend on the belingness of companies to ignorant or to be willfully ignorant of what is happening out there in these communities because these drugs are very, very tightly controlled. so drug companies, drug street bidders and large pharmacy quantities ofe drugs that are moving to certain parts of the country to be prescribed or be dispensed their. dispensed -- or to be dispensed to there. st. petersbu

on the street, whether they're illicit drugs or prescription drugs. we will enforce those laws. >> how could you say you want to get rid of crime? and then once the person serve their time and come back out, you tell them they can't live in public housing, they can't get health insurance, they can't get certain jobs. so how do they live? >> donnie andrews should know. a convicted murderer, donnie used to rob drug dealers for a living. he and his nephew dante - who's a former dealer - said some of the neighborhoods baltimore's kids are growing up in, feel like conflict zones. >> this is our war land. we duck, dodge, run. hide behind trees, all this s---. shoot outs. >> that's what it feels like? that it's just constant war? >> yeah. >> dante got into dealing drugs after an injury ended his hopes of becoming a basketball player. >> you know so i started dodging the street at 18, you know what i mean, running with the wrong crew, locked up, shot. >> you got shot. >> yeah, i got shot in my back, in my leg over this argument about a basketball game. he was

and nobody faults the drug company. i've been a teacher for 40 years if the student fails they say their something wrong with me. there's something wrong where is the pharmaceutical companies if they can't keep their drug prices down and forego those ohio salaries in order to save people. that's their job not just to make money and they can do that. 18 thousand people signed this ballot measure to get it on board. everybody is backing this measure. people who haven't spoken to each other in 20 years are backing this because this is the good thing for that the people of 70 >> mr. that infamous. i don't care whether the drug companies fail but i care that repel amelia reach gets interrupted. the futures of the company's i don't care about but i care about the net medical research which lives are riding on that's where i favor using the money. i put in the voters hand good things to put money into and i listed thirty cancers companies and i urge you to donate to those companies. we need more medical research not less. ther

many drugs fail that are successful. just two days ago our pharmaceuticals opened $14.04 the next day it was down. $11 declined in one day 66 percent. it's a pear cancer drugs. that's typical are what happens. i site overlooking another one there was a suddenly drop back in agriculture those repeatedly happen. i have to compensate our research companies otherwise they're not going to be in the field and costs lives. this is the position of the house and a senate 33 they have to encourage the companies in order to save lives. ms. kelly while this sound like a great change many people are reluctant to building they'll see a difference >> i really want to talk about would the opponent of this just said. i don't have the money to buy drugs myself. i also don't have the money to buy stock in drugs companies on let me just tell you something the ceo's make hundreds of millions of dollars. there's enough money for r&d. every year those companies are a profit and every year more people can't afford their medication. there's a di

need to control its drug consumption to control the cartel, but the war on drugs has been largely ineffective for decades. but let's talk about the avocados. people say, i buy avocados from mexico and should i stop buying them and should there been a boycott some. >> please don't stop buying the avocados. what you care about are the farmers in mexico. there's no good to come from boycotting avocados. you have to understand that the farmers have no control over what they decide to do with the avocados, and they're extorting a fee from them, and it doesn't mean that you'll help the farmers or the citizens of mexico improve their situation by not buying avocados, it will make them worse off. >> malcolm, what's the best way for the citizens, to help the farmers and penalize the cartels? >> i think that he brought up the business model and his point was right. he completely made me rethink what i was saying. there's something -- how do i say this without coming across as horrible, but there's something positive about the idea of blood avocados. in that we have noticed over the years -- drug eradic

promoting drugs. promoting cuting drugs for purposes not approved and shown to be safe or even effective. case is about.s the statute requires that for the labeling for the drug provide directions for use. and reflect any restrictions that the fda requires. about in e're talking involved promotion for intended uses without the date.ed statute man that's the nature of the claim here. >> mr. attorney general, there are a lot of questions about the at l.a.x. on friday. i wanted to know what your understanding is of the you think on and do there are things that could have been done to stop this and how do you stop it in the future? >> the investigation sundays way. part of that investigation will be the review of the security that were in place, not only in l.a.x., but i think a review of the security arrangements that exist in other airports as well. he function of the tsa is to ensure that people can board flights fely, take safely. he responsibility for protecting airport security is not a tsa function

for alcohol-and alcohol and drugs, illicit drugs are treated differently.f you have past history of alcohol abuse and dependence requiring treatment or contributing to a-your disability, you are covered. if people regarded you, as barbara pointed out, as having a history of alcoholism, you're covered. if you are a current drinker and your job does not have a policy which restricts you from being either under the influence or having a dui or an alcohol-related condition, you can be covered. alternatively, with illicit drugs- if you are a current user of illicit drugs, you are not covered. if you have a history of using illicit drugs but are not a current user, you're covered under the ada, and if you have a past history and you're regarded as having a history of illicit drug use, you're covered. ed, let's talk about a little bit, you're a person with a physical disability, but you also are in recovery yourself. do you want to tell us a little bit about your story? yes. i suffer from alcoholism. i had alcoholism before my physical disability occurred. alcohol

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drug supply chain is secure and that consumers receive drugs that work. i want to thank the senator from iowa as i have already, for his leadership on these two extraordinary pieces of legislation senator burr and senator bennett on the track and trace legislation and senator robertson franken worked hard on the compounding legislation. the fda commissioner challenged us mr. president. she said if we don't act this tragedy will happen again. we have an opportunity to act tonight and i hope that we do. the families who were devastated by this tragedy of contaminated steroid injections that created fungal meningitis in many of our states especially tennessee, expect us to act. if we do it will be not as well advertised as the differences of opinion that we can have in the united states senate but it will demonstrate how when we worked together over period of a couple of years that we can take a big piece of complex legislation that affects the health and safety of every american and come to a consensus, and it takes a large step forward. i think the preside

at issue, drugs impairing drivers.phen is tracking drug drivers. >> reporter: it's 10:00 on a wednesday night in redding, california. this driver is walking the line. >> because you are being placed under arrest for dui. >> reporter: officers say it's not alcohol that put the man in handcuffs. >> i think he's using something picking him up and bringing him down at the same time. >> reporter: it's drugs. the officer is a dui specialist with the redding police department. last year, the office of traffic safety recognized him for making 225 dui arrests. a third of those weren't for alcohol, but driving under the influence of drugs. >> drug impaired driving is an initiative we need to address. >> reporter: in the last ten years, drug related crashes jumped 40%. the dmv statistics show in the majority of the crashes involving injuries, the drivers are not convicted of dui. >> a lot of prosecutors are afraid of dui because they don't have the background knowledge of drug impairment. they are afraid to take the cases to tria

most of the drugs -- or all the drugs on the market today work on the immune system.ey don't actually prevent ms from progressing, and they certainly don't give anybody function back. you've got an idea, the myelin repair foundation that you can address the fundamental causes of ms. how is that going to work? >> if you think about it, you know, myelin forms in the body as you grow and i think it continues to form until about the late teens, typically, they see the brain myelin ating so we know it is a natural process. most likely healthy people don't have ms, like other cells of your bodies there's -- myelin is actually the coating on your axons, so it's probably being remodeled constantly and likely in ms the real problem is when it gets damaged, that repair process is being prevented. so we see this as a doable target because essentially we are not trying to convince the body to do something that's foreign or different, we are trying to allow it to do what it's being blocked and so the focus has always been on the immune system and ms because it was considered an au

♪ ♪ >>> could the military have a drug problem? he is department of defense spends billions of drugs to treat mental illness and reduce pain, in fact a recent report by the department of veterans affairs found that v.a. doctors prescribe specifically more opiates to stress patients than other veterans. congress held a hearing. family members, veterans and doctors testified about the culture of prescribing drugs at the v.a. >> unfortunately, we have given the veterans the impression that for whatever problem they have, we have a pill to help it. one or two bills to depression, one for anxiety. one or two for sleep, one for ptsd. add a few more pills for hypertension, diabetes, asthma, then add one or two or three precipitations for narcotics, what happens if a vet adds some over the counter medications or if he drinks alcohol? >> suicide and accidental overdose among veterans and active service members is twice as high as the national average. leading some to question whether the drugs are treating mental illness and pain or making

drug test?> i will take a drug test. let's it. >> man, i will do it. but he needs to take one, too. >> i won't lie i've done bad stuff in my life.are you on dru? i had a bad time in my life when me and tiffany broke up. >> excuses, excuses, poor you, poor you >> am i talking to you? >> i am the slut? i know who my baby daddy is. i am n on the show you are. >> i don't want to hear your voice >> yeah, okay. i'm not a slut. >> kirk: nirvana are the kids with your mother? >> they are with my mother >> they are going to be with me. >> kirk: why aren't you with your kids? >> because she called cps on me telling them i'm addicted to heroin and everytime they tested me it came up negative. you test me right now and i will come up damn negative. i do not party every night >> kirk: we are going to send tate taton and nirvana for a drug test and has taton's super sperm spawned another baby? we will find out next. [applause] >> kirk: coming up on "the test"... >> you ruined my lif he is not a father because

and for the drug side.so even if it is a product that we have primary responsibility for, if it has a biological component we go to the center for biologic standards it is a drug company and we go to the center for drugs. this is a very challenging area. i have to tell you this because given the way that the law is, we have been able to minimize the duplicate of burden if you well in the challenges on the post market site for reporting more on the good manufacturing processes. but when it comes to the standard for approving products, the law right now is very challenging for the combination product makers. >> the bipartisan act took important steps to encourage the development of antibiotics by focusing on the census to the new companies to keep companies in the marketplace. and at this time can you provide me the number of cola fight infectious disease products that have been designated since the law was passed last year? >> we have designated a 27 products with 16 distinctive acts coming and that number w

drug shortage list and unavailable through their contracted wholesaler. according to a recent study by premier alliance, which includes 30 colorado hospitals, sale prices of drugs that are in shortage are, on average, 650% higher than the contracted prices. these hospitals have no idea, absolutely no idea whether the businesses that are approaching them are reputable and how they can -- and how they can have supply of these drugs that are in shortage. investigations into the gray market have shown that current law offers a huge incentive to make outrageous profits at the expense of patients, whether through selling and reselling or counterfeiting or tainting drugs. a little over a decade ago, criminals in florida made $46 million by counterfeiting 110,000 doses of epige 0en. these criminals sold the counterfeit drugs to pharmacies around the country. the f.d.a. recovered less than 10% of the counterfeit product. in 2009, nearly 130,000 vials of insulin, a temperature-sensitive drug to treat diabetes, were stolen and later found across the country and even

we feel that drug trafficking and organized crime is a hemispheric threat.s we have to work together, not only among the central american countries, but also the united states has to become more involved. the countries in south america, where the drugs are produced, they have to become more involved. regional,to be a comprehensive effort in dealing with what is a regional threat. >> you talk about south america getting involved with central america, with the united states, it is amazing that the number one customer for the drugs is america. >> that's true. that central america feel it is very important that the united states take steps to reduce the demand for drugs, that it takes steps to deal more effectively with drug trafficking within united oretes, that it become m effective in dealing with money laundering and also the illegal sales of firearms. we in central america, we may our territory is being used for the trafficking of drugs. so our role in this effort is to ourto make sure that territory is not used for drug trafficking. in the case of the coun

the drug trade. is this the time for change? lloyd roberts. airport and another european is found trying to smuggle cocaine. this is worth half a million pounds in london. he faces 15 years in jail and the drugs will be destroyed. but there is plenty more where it came from. 500 miles northeast in the amazon journal, -- amazon jungle, the land is used for cocaine production, with several thousand pounds produced each year. the team arrives as part of a government eradication program. coca can be harvested four times per year and provides welcome work and money for the locals here. the workers have fled by the time that the team pulls the roots out from the rich soil. so why the guns. [speaking spanish] >> the joint trafficking guns are still here, and they have the weapons to attack us. that is why these men need protection. >> they moved to to makeshift laboratories, equipped with all of the ingredients of cocaine production. leaves and then acid to produce the powder of the foreign market. inre wer

drug compounding and drug supply chain security, and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president, following leader remarks, the senate will be in a period of morning business until 4:30 this dwraafternoon. at 4:30, the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the nomination of cornelia pillard. at 5:30 there will be a cloture vote on the pillard nomination. if cloture is not invoked, there will be a second roll call vote on the motion to proceed to the drug compounding bill. i'm told that s. 1661 is due for a second reading. the president pro tempore: the clerk will read the title of the bill for the second time. the clerk: a bill to require the secretary of state to offer rewards up to $5 million for information regarding the attacks on the united states diplomatic mission at benghazi, libya. mr. reid: i would object to any further proceedings with respect to this legislation. the president pro tempore: objection is heard. the bill will be placed on the calendar. mr. reid: mr. president, i extend my condolences to jim inhofe, the senior senato