. >> joining me is peter pitts. explain this to me. what exactly are counterfeit drugs?> counterfeit drugs are medicines that are made to look like the brand name that are actually fake. >> means they can have no active i ne ingredie ingredient. if means they can be sugar pills, have dangerous products in them. they can be super potent, sub potent but most importantly, they are not what they are advertised to be. they are fakes, sold by criminals, to unsuspecting people, very dangerous. >> but i also understand there is a difference between counterfit drugs and substandard drugs. what is that difference? >> that's right. in many countries in the developing world, there are drugs which we would refer to here as generic drugs produced to mimic the therapeutic benefits of the innovator of the brand names. >> essentially the same. >> essentially the same but p r poorly manufactured. oven times they have the wrong i need agreedients. even though they claim to solve the same medical problems that the bland drugs do, they don't. they are legal. >> that's the difference. >> you