>> well, i think there are -- i think not everybody who uses drug is a drug addict. and there's a segment of the population that recreationally uses narcotics and don't necessarily need treatment and they certainly don't need a felony conviction. that having been said, if you are an addict, it doesn't make any sense to turn you into a felon addict. we just heard that person before very eloquently talk about spending most of his life incarcerated. and he's made it. but the fact of the matter is, encumbrance of a felony conviction is so debilitating. countless of times you run into people who can't get housing, can't get education, can't get jobs, it's a trap. if we deal with addiction it makes no sense to turn an addict into a felon. [applause] >> chief, you've been committed to evidence-based practices in your administration of the adult probation department. to what extent does that inform your approach when you look at senator leno's measure and deciding whether or not to support it? >> my view is not only from evidence-based practices but also from spending almost

you do not go to jail for possession of any drug in a small amount. and you are not drug tested. nobody gets thrown back in for dirty urines and all this sort of stuff. it's now been in place for 11 years. the research on that, and i recommend the piece in the british journal of crin knowledge and kid send it to -- cridge -- criminolgy. cases of h.i.v. and hepc and crime went down and people continued to seek treatment, that the rates of drug use in portugal did not go up at the same rates as comparable countries in europe. that suggests powerful evidence that you cannot just turn smling from a felony to a misdemeanor but eliminate the criminalization of drug possession, small amounts, without suffering negative consequences in terms of public health or public safety. now, when marty said before about people have no incentive to go into drug treatment, you know, if i could, it reminded me of the comedian, when you said all you have is humor, a hammer and everything looks like a nail, i think the perspective for prosecutors is when all you have is a criminal sanction, everything l

you, then perhaps they're not bribing that drug because -- prescribing that drug because it's good for you, but because they're lining their pocket or somehow benefiting in another way. and legally those doctors are going to have to disclose every year what gifts and funds they do take. so keep an eye out for that. >> host: so right now doctors can be on the payroll of a pharmaceutical company, any -- of a company in a sense and not have to disclose that? >> guest: yes, that's right. but now there'll be a national sort of online database where all of us can type in our doctors' names and see what sort of payments they're receiving from pfizer. and often times, you know, there are legitimate things that are going on. but the more we know as consumers, the better we can take care of ourselves. so i really applaud in this aspect of obamacare. >> host: "blood medicine" is the name of the book, and gina is calling from fresno. please go ahead. >> caller: hi, kathleen, this is gina. >> guest: hi. >> caller: i really thank you for writing your book. i have personal experience as well as we ju

being off the drugs, i do feel physically better. woken up with natural energy in a long time. >> so you're really off everything? >> yeah. >> so what do you do to get quote/unquote high in jail? >> sugar. >> sugar. >> yeah, i've gained ten pounds so far. carrie keeps feeding me moon pies. she told me the other day, she's like, yeah, i'm not going to be the fat friend. >> so you're addicted to moon pies? no caffeine, no coffee. wow. >> yeah. >> jail has given katie the opportunity to detox. and she will soon join an inhouse drug treatment program. >> i really hope that helps you a lot. sounds like you think you don't really need it much or -- >> i'm sure -- i mean, yes, i have a drug problem. you know, i know that. i don't know -- i mean, i just -- i don't know how my life's going to go. >> it's an opportunity for you and i hope you will really try at it. it's kind of like going to school and you don't like school. i know. >> after 40 minutes, the video monitor turns off. so katie and her mother must say their good-byes. >> so do you

no to drugs >> okay.. wow. wow. in this war. the war on drugs wasn't championed by republicans alone. 1996 president bill clinton named a general, a current nbc military analyst as the drugs war when he was chosen to head the office of national control policy. not a doctor, not a lawyer. he appointed a general. this is what happens when we define a set of public policies as war. just what has this war yielded? the war on drugs cost this country $1 trillion and 45 million people arrested yet the war continues. the ball is in president obama's court. more recently the president unveiled his 2013 national drug control strategy, which is focuses the war on the science of addiction. that's a step in the right direction. but statements like the one made in mexico on friday still leave us feeling directionless on this battlefield. >> i've been asked and i honestly do not believe that legalized drugs is the answer. but i do believe that a comprehensive approach, not just law enforcement, but education and prevent

you're not ending the war on drugs. we need to think of at holistic play as a public-health problem. not as a rush also the people who are selling and people are selling a rock to a police officer pretending to be an addict. all those people need help. >> i think that have given my all for the cause. i will leave it to george to put the capper on it. >> what is the sanction for opposing -- he is one of your members. >> he is and he is a valued member of the association. as an elected official, he is entitled to his own opinion. >> thank you. i have to say that, i want to think marty for coming here. he knew he was coming into this. i want to repeat. i am in the minority in the association. i think concerning this item, it is important for me and all of us to recognize there are ballot points of view. if we're serious about developing solutions that work for all of us, we have to entertain those points of view and tried to reach consensus. that is the only one that we will create a workable, sustainable solutions. all we

and you look at drug use, the arrest for drug offenses, i mean, people of all backgrounds use drugs.ther they are rich or poor, whatever race they come from, but you find that the majority of the drug arrests and people who are incarcerated for those are minorities and poor people. at least here in new york that is true anyway. i am guessing that something like that is going on in the rest of the country. if the only people i can see benefiting from it are the drug lords and whoever makes money from prisons, from the criminal justice system. is pretty much what happened during prohibition too because the rates were mostly on saloons that were where the working class people and immigrants drink. they did not raid the country clubs on long island. the second point is more of an anecdote, but my father was a coast guard reservist when the war on drugs started. during the late 1980's and early 19 90's. he was involved at attempts at intercepting ships, boats that were smuggling drugs into your they did not succeed. they would have to turn around and run back out to sea. he always said th

develop these drugs.ying to find single molecule that may be successful as opposed to multiple ones and focus in on get i think that's smarter for them. smarter for the drug companies that fund them. beneficial for us, who our job is to help them make these go and no-go decision as early in the process as possible, either when they have a lead compound or they have the first time they put drugs in new animals and discern whether it's effective and safe, or when they go to regulated trials. the earlier they can decide that the drug is likely fought to be beneficial, they need to stop it and as soon as they decide that that's the compound they really want to roll with and really want to invest in, that will be very powerful and i think a higher likelihood of greater number of drugs being approved. you know, last year, there were a higher number of drugs approved than in the prior four or five years. many of those were biologicals. by the way, we worked on 50% of those. that makes us very proud. and we will

transitive lifestyle and long story short i take drugs for a live human drug test and what other people see my scars a think of a drug user could think through i track marks ject and heroin but after i get about one hundred needles in there is going to leave a mark that's what i'm sure and i've been in studies where we had one hundred sticks and like fourteen days that's a lot more traffic i think going through my veins i mean that's what i'm being paid to do being paid to be a poet prodded. tested and if i didn't want to do that i would be here doing it i have to believe that i'm doing something now about society i could be saving i was that many people. do i really believe that. it's hard. when the scare. friday was robert helms and i am a professional guinea there's a take take relationship between me and the pharmaceutical companies my name is robert helms and i am a professional going to pick they need bodies to do the testing and i need money. so no i don't have any moral qualms my name is robert helms and i'm a professional in the real robert jones makes his living as a human gui

drug was developed. and it may not seem like a big deal, but prior to 1987, we had no antiviral drugs at all. steve pieters: dr. levine offered me the opportunity to be patient number one on the very first drug they ever tried against h.i.v., and i was treated with that drug for a total of 39 weeks. well, within six weeks, all of my kaposi's sarcoma lesions had disappeared. and the lymphoma had gone into complete remission. of the 90 patients who received the drug, steve pieters was the only one to experience positive results, along with some unpleasant side effects. it was an extraordinarily toxic drug, and it blew out my adrenal glands. it caused major neuromuscular damage, wasting, peripheral neuropathy. it took me about a year to recover from the side effects of the drug. the other patients have all since died from the progression of aids. it was within the next year the drug azt was introduced. and it was a good drug. it still is. the problem, though, is that if we use one drug to treat the h.i.v. v

three other drugs. very often the caller will tell me i have tried those drugs and i had a terrible rash when i got back zero or terrible intestinal problem or they have already been through those. but in order to convince the planned, they need to get documentation from the doctors who prescribe those earlier medications and it is not always possible or easy to do. i would say that is a very common problem among the callers that we get. i am not sure i have the ability to answer the question of how to improve the lot of these people that really need the drug that the doctor has prescribed and still have cost containment issues. >> let me ask the rest of the panel, it is very good to have you verify you get those kinds of calls that my office gets and we have got in and even when the physician has written a letter saying the person needs this particular drug. why don't die quickly go down the panel. >> yes, there are some potential things you could do in one is to understand how often it happens. we kno

talk to me a little bit about that and what kind of drugs are they using. it is quite different than it was even 2 or 3 years ago. we see a huge increase in pharmaceutical drug use, not using it as prescribed. we also see an increase in alcohol use, and binge drinking is a serious problem, as well as some of the more legal types of drugs labeled as incense or those types of things in different smoke shops. and jonathan, does that hold true for what you are seeing in new york city? absolutely. we are seeing the use or the misuse of drugs such as ritalin, adderall, inderal being used for specific purposes to help kids stay up late and study, to calm kids down. we're also seeing a lot of binge drinking and we're seeing a disturbing kind of resurgence in the amount of nicotine smoking. i think kids are resorting to cigarettes because they're legal. they are not super cheap, but compared to other kinds of drugs they're certainly cheaper and readily available, and that is quite disturbing. and tami, let's talk about underage drinking a little bit more that jonath

cancer drugs, arthritis drugs, ms drugs. a drug where the government laid , large role with pfizer $25,000. a big risk for a seniors center -- will be your counsel with respect to how to deal with these specialty drugs that are so expensive, and increasingly they are going to be injectable and play a bigger and bigger role in the healthcare landscape? your thoughts on specialty drugs for seniors? >> there is a particular problem with the specialty drugs for people who are really in lower incomes. what happens is for other medications, if the doctor prescribes the particular medication that is in a high tier, and i specialty tier, the to a lowerappeal tier, lower the price, if there is not another drug that that person can use instead. specialty drugs do not have that. one cannot appeal for a lower price for a specialty drug. whoave had many callers have needed one of the specialty drugs for conditions like multiple sclerosis, for example, who can't appeal to the dump to the company because they are low income. one woman was

i was a former drug rep who helped shape his old watch marketplace which was the s.s.r.i. marketplace in the early ninety's it was a blockbuster market it was huge i mean every drug in that market did over the in dollars prozac paxil zoloft select lexapro so i've been tracking that market for a couple of decades on and off years ago i met a psychiatrist who got consulted at the zoo to treat a particular young but no boast chimp who was injuring himself and it got to a point where it was almost a matter of life and death so that's why they called in the psychiatrist they wanted him for a prescription they wanted a psychiatric medication beyond what they normally use so he wrote a script for paxil to reduce his anxiety to help with the o.c.d. behavior the young male chimp stopped hurting himself lost his anxiety was resold he's part of the troop he's in line to be an hour from hell at some point so you could say it's an incredible success story but it was how he envisioned paxil being used in his human patients medication plus psychodynamic intervention he was able to do it

s associations and call for various types of reforms for the drug laws and drug enforcement. i think that the -- one of the contexts that's so important here and people so often lose sight of is that this bill, 1506, is a small effort in the state of california and in the country of the united states to try to roll back the horrendous rates of incarceration that have happened in this country over the last 30 years. i mean, that's the context, right? the united states, i think most of you know these numbers now, but we're less than 5% of the world's population but almost 25% of the world's incarcerated population. we rank first in the world in the per capita incarceration of our fellow citizens. the russians are fading fast in second or third place together with the belarus people. the rates of the incarceration are five, six, seven, eight times than most in other societies, europe and elsewhere, though their rates of nonviolent crime and drug use are not that much different than ours. so if another country were to lock up its own people at the rate that we do, and if our rate

you know i want people to know this is what the drugs to. afghan simply want to kill himself. he went to. so clearly what i do is the historian is looking to the way the poor people have been exploited and brutalized that abused by. the people in power. and the people with money. this includes these people who are on the margins including. human guinea pigs. and this is the history of that hasn't been told for that enough and there are a lot of stories that are important that haven't been brought to light and that haven't been explored. i think. i. mean the people that are in psychiatric distress can especially benefit from the acute use of psychiatric medications i don't think we need to question that but you also have this whole other part of society that is using slash abusing psychiatric medication and you can put the medical field in there too because they're the enablers in the ninety's if you told a family practice doctor in ten years you will write a ton of prescriptions every month for atypical antipsychotics he might laugh at you now primary care writing a typical fo

annual drug budget with the nhl's. gone on this stuff and we don't even know if it is any better than aspirin. is mind bending. that is the first one-third of my talk. [laughter] i know that there is such use your own venture component because i cannot see what time it is. 20 after eight. that is 8:20 p.m. in english money. [laughter] if i talk extremely fast would you like that or shut up and have questions? are you sure? genuine? are you sure? okay. i will try to speak faster. [laughter] if i do in the american accent is that easier? [laughter] i hope you understand welch. [laughter] right. okay. all randomize controls they're not all perfect and immaculate but in reality they could be flawed which means that they are no longer having the actual estimate of the recent benefits of treatment so i will tell you about the simple ones in before we get there, it is not up coffee ought but the pork and background is the business of missing clinical trial data but there is an anecdote the single story i gave you were illustr

whatever drug i did take, man, that drug -- caused me more pain than it did a sensational high. >> we'reworried about it happening again. >> yes and no. actually scratch the no. yeah, i'm actually kind of worried. i am. i'll be honest. because seeing yourself on videotape like that, whoa. what's wrong? >> coming up. >> i have an opinion with respect to the motion to dismiss. and so i'm going to read that opinion here this morning. >> michael keenan makes a life and death decision and now his future is in the hands of one man. >>> you wouldn't happen to know what morgan foods manufactured. i've been following this stock the last two weeks. >> you follow the stock market? >> yeah, make some money. >> thanks to you? >> my subscription. >> inside the cuyahoga county corrections center, michael keenan is not only popular with other inmates. he has even developed a cordial relationship with some of the jail's special response team members. >> i just refer to you guys as ninjas. you're all black. that's the reason. i don't know if they know karate or not. >> ninja, men in black. >> you've been

of drugs?in. >> how are you taking it? >> smoke it. i seen you looking at my arms. people don't go for needles over here. absolutely hate them. >> so are you high right now? >> no, no, no, not yet. >> when does that happen? >> when this is finished. >> drugs have impacted steven galaway's life as well. he spent most of his adulthood behind bars but he's maintained a sense of humor about it all. >> what's got a hundred legs and three teeth? a meth king. >> as soon as we met steven, it was evident he was a funny, outgoing character. he had a quick wit. even when the joke was pointed at you, you had to laugh, as i found out. >> he said, oh, there's a super model just come down. obviously he's got it wrong. i'm only messing with you. don't take it personal. >> but beneath gallaway's humor is a desperate past. >> all right, one minute. >> he's currently serving just under four years for assault and robbery. >> i was a drug user, i just wanted cash. so i'd just go and bang, that's how i used to do it

the drug trade exists even on the inside.t commonly smuggled in through visitors or the mail. and once they're in, inmates create their own sales and distribution systems. >> the laundry room, as well as the kitchen are the central hubs. they'll put the contra band, whether it's drugs or weapons, they'll put it in a cart and tag the cart in such a manner that the other inmates at the receiving end know this is the cart. it might be something as simple as flipping a shirt over or taping a piece of paper to the side of the cart. >> but the technique inmates use to smuggle drugs into jail are constantly evolving. the jail recently acquired a new team member. >> she's a narcotics dog. she's trained to find all the different forms of cocaine, meth, heroin and oxycodone. >> she's going to be off her leash and i'm going to let her do her thing. >> she's a big puppy. >> i think a lot of this job is going to be presence, just the inmates knowing that this dog is here and that we will be out looking for the drugs. i think we will deter

trade. >> the drug trade made everything worse. there's judge here. there's few institutions here. basically, you know that the state is here just because the army is here. i think we're going to make the major move. >> glrks ulio says our gonzalez is the mayor of the city which has seen much better and worse days. >> how many people live here? 15,200. >> if you're running an assistance form growing plain tans, not much else. you're not doing particularly well, somebody comes along and offers you a nice machine gun and a cool scarf, especially if you're 15, 16 years old, that's a pretty attractive offer. >> of course. >> even if they said you'll be dead by time you're 25. come on. >> it is. it is. and they offer you a salary. >> so what is the future of t s this? >> they're providing free communication and eco-tourism, as well. >> what a lot of people say is without the customer, there's no cocaine trade and there's no violence, right? so if the united states and europe stopped buying cocaine? >> that's so impossible, i can't think

whatever drug i did take, man, that drug -- caused me more pain than it did a sensational high. >> we'rerried about it happening again. >> yes and no. actually scratch the no. yeah, i'm actually kind of worried. i am. i'll be honest. because seeing yourself on videotape like that, whoa. what's wrong? >> coming up. >> i have an opinion with respect to the motion to dismiss. and so i'm going to read that opinion here this morning. >> michael keenan makes a life and death decision and now his future is in the hands of one man. the capital one cash rewards card gives you 1% cash back on all purchases, plus a 50% annual bonus. and everyone but her... no. no! no. ...likes 50% more cash. but i don't give up easy... do you want 50% more cash? yes! yes?! ♪ [ male announcer ] the capital one cash rewards card gives you 1% cash back on every purchase, plus a 50% annual bonus on the cash you earn. it's the card for people who like more cash. ♪ what's in your wallet? why? and we've hit the why phase... >>> you wouldn't happen to know what morgan foods manufactured. i've been following this stock the

what economy was entirely drug based economy. now that the drugs are gone, there is no economy.e sitting there staring at the space waiting for the beer to arrive. that is something i can understand. tell me something hopeful. >> i think we are becoming more and more conscious that this past decade of violence has been absolutely useless, and that we have to change many, many, many things. >> um-hmm. >> and so -- i think -- it's not as good as my mother's. i'm sorry. >> well, it never is. if you removed cocaine from the equation, removed the drug trade as a financial engine, you would still have serious division over ideology here. is that improving? >> things are changing in a good direction, but very slowly, i think. you know, ten years ago in medellin they killed 7,500 people every year. three years ago this number came to 700 people killed in medellin in the year. so the situation has changed. >> right. >> i have only questions, i have no answers. i'm so sorry. if i were the president, i really i -- i don't know what. >> you wouldn't know what to do? >> no, i wouldn't. >> to

the european union's drugs agencies are warning about a major increase in the use of synthetic drugs.it found that one quarter of all european adults had -- have admitted to using illegal drugs at some point. most common of which, cannabis, amphetamines, and ecstasy. the use of ecstasy is on the rise. researchers say that stronger pills are now being made sure more attractive to some buyers. the use of cocaine and the use of heroin is going down. new drugs sold as legal highs intended to mimic control drugs are on the rise, as are the online sites that sell them. the european economic crisis making more young people honorable to drug abuse come it turns out. in greece, many are trying a new synthetic drug known as shisha, a dangerous version of crystal meth. we report from athens. >> it is a family of sorts, drug addicts were thinking of giving up the habits and giving their lives a second chance. they need at this clubhouse in central athens run by state- funded therapy center. among them is a 43-year-old metalworker. he has spent years building cars, ships, and all of press is under

drug behind the library. beaten within an inch of her life and brutally raped. >> if it was a crime to be in love then i'm guilty because i'm in love with you. >> an alleged murder and rapist seeks a lover and benefactor. >> scary is not the word but gives you the creeps. [ laughter ] ♪ >>> with an average of 361 days of sunshine per year, life in tampa, florida, would seem like paradise. but crime knows no geographical bounds. on any given day, the two sprawling facilities that make up tampa's hillsborough county jail system how's roughly 3,000 men and women. >> your hands should be on the wall. >> most only stand accused of crime and are awaiting trial. others are serving short sentences of one year or less. they all begin the incarceration in the jail's intake department. but the crimes they're associated with range from horrific to petty and everything in between. >> i'm very photogenic. >> reporter: deandre barnes was arrested on charges of cocaine and marijuana possession with intent to sell. he plans t

: combining yervoy and the new drug shrand melanoma more than either drug alone, by 38%, and roche's drug significantly shrunk cancers in kidney, lung, cancer patients. >> you want people to on be more productive. it used to be aids was a death sentence. now, a life-long disease. >> reporter: all three drugmakers will report full trial results on sunday. for "nightly business report," bertha coombs. >>> on monday, following the cancer conference, we'll speak with the ceo of infinity pharmaceuticals, shares have more than doubled over the past year. >>> market focus tonight with a blue chip chipmaker, intel, a dow gainer today on reports that samsung has selected a new intel processor for the galaxy tablet which premieres june 20th. up 2% before the sell-off and closed up a fraction at $24.28. >>> the fight for dell's future conditions. board set a july 1 8th vote on michael dell's plan to take the company private. the largest stakeholder urged fellow shareholders to take no action when proxies show up in their mailboxes, believing there is more per share value than michael dell's 13.

so he gives me the money and asked where can i get drugs and i sent him to the drug dealer.gave me the money, i went to the dealer, gave him the stuff, one crack and well, you know what? they got me and him, my first felony. >> she told our producer she had worked as a prostitute the last 14 years. >> i didn't like myself doing it. i wasn't too happy about it but i had no choice. i had no money, i had no nothing. >> how many years did you do that? >> since i was 21. >> rhonda hopes the skills she has picked up in the bakery will give her a second chance as a mother. >> got a daughter? >> yes, she's 14. she's with her father's mother in florida. >> what's her name? >> roseanne. >> she writes to you? >> yeah. >> what does she write? >> saying that she loves me, she misses me. start crying right now. it's all right. are you all right? >> yeah. okay. i miss my daughter. >> i know you do. i know you do. all right. >> my heart went out to her because whenever prisoners begin to talk about their children, it is the one very sensitive spot in their lives. and no matter what they may

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one is drug addiction and the other is drug trafficking.re not going to deal with the other. we have to deal with it forever. >> it's a beautiful country. the people here are -- from where i've been is nice, even the bad guys are charming. >> that is true. >> the food is delicious. the problem is the united states will never legalize drugs. it will never happen. it's a complicated issue. >> yeah, yeah. >> so the good people of this town could thank us for bringing their fresh supply of coca. >> yeah. yeah. >> cerveza, coca. think nothing of it, gentlemen. it was really our pleasure. are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we were on schedule. the first technology of its kind... mom and dad, i have great news. is now providing answers families need. siemens. answers. ♪ >>> bogata, the country's capital and an almost two-mile-high city with new lofty food ambitions, where previously the restaurant scene didn't really exist. now young restauranteurs such as musician turned chef tomas rueda are beginning to make a name f

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problem and their drug war.hink the president would be wise to make sure that the u.s. is still playing a big role in this, because they're not winning. >> mort, do you think -- >> it's spreading over the border, too. >> do you think nieto is cares mat snake. >> i think without question he is charismatic, and he seems to be a lot more progressive and willing to take on domestic interest. >> talking about the pri? >> the pri has come back into power but they're not the same kind of corrupt leadership with cartels dominating that party as it was when they were last in power, because they've been out of power for awhile. the question now is, he's now going after the telecom monopolies and other monopolies that were built up in that period. >>> mexico was only destination one of president obama's south of the border trip. destination two? costa rica, south of nicaragua, north of panama with coast lines on both the atlantic and pack ocean 0. mr. obama is the first u.s. president to visit costa rica since bill clinton

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lower-cost generic drugs is a big factor but other reasons we have the prescription and drugs editor from "consumer reports." welcome back. is always good to have you here is it due to generics? >> no. good portion is $28 billion worth of these drugs are now available with generics. gerri: that is a huge. >> this is the most number one commonly prescribed drug in no time in history have we have this many drugs go off patent. gerri: with the door in the titular the you could spend a couple hundred dollars for lipitor for some stores it is a lot less. gerri: you say it is a big trend but i wonder the degree that some cannot afford their medication and may not be buying them. >> that was the second reason people saved money they did not fill prescriptions because they are facing an economic crisis of their own in their own research shows that in a recall of thousands of americans asking how is the economy affecting your ability to fill your prescription drugs? the answer comes back is hurting them terribly. gerri: we have more common these drugs are commonly prescribed. >> is used for d

heart drug, cancer drugs, it doesn't matter of the drugs approved in 2004-2011, quintiles was involved with 85% of the nervous system drugs, 72% of the cardiovascular drugs. can you believe that? those are incredible numbers. if you are a big pharma company or a smaller one with a candidate that still needs to be studied, you got the quintiles, they will will take care of everything soup to nuts. they recruit the patients needed and they keep up with the requests from the food and drug administration, all along the way. in fact, one of the most important things about this, quintiles has a terrific relationship with the fda, which is a big reason they get so much of the outsourced drug development business. they are trusted by the government. plus the company has a major advantage over the competition thanks to their size and their scale. if you want to get a new drug approved, the fda wants to see diverse patient sites, clean data, accuracy, speed. that means more contract organizations simply can't compete with a bulldog like quintiles. they are known for phase ii and iii human clinic

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