Each drug is born on the contribution of a specific group, which is customarily referred to as “temporaries”, who have no access to markets until they try。
Recently, the ebola virus terror struck, and the united states government stepped up the development of new drugs, while news of the cessation of human testing due to the excessive side effects of the drug was heard earlier。
The existence of testers is of great significance for the development of health care, and it can be said that everyone depends on their well-developed access to modern medicine. But in china, drug testers are like shadows in the sun, giving the impression that people are sneaking around, with controversy and contradictions, and certainly with a taste of money。
Testers are not a profession, but often earn more than normal jobs. Recent news reports indicate that a group of university students in wuhan have become professional drug testers and have tried them frequently despite the law. According to our legislation, a tester can only try one drug within three months, but one of the students in this group has three or four tests within three months, equivalent to almost one test per month。
Despite knowing the harm that can be caused by frequent drug trials, these students chose to ignore the physical damage for one reason: money
Tester's record
No one wants to joke about their lives, and it is usually understood that testing is not a formal occupation, but there are still a lot of people who go into the drug ring for a good reward。
Young young people living in shanghai, aliases, and friends, saw information on the recruitment of drug testers on the recruitment website in 2009, amounting to over 3,000 at a time. A friend of junior moved to a hospital in pudong district, shanghai city. Although he was afraid to try the medicine, he was in the way of his friends。
It was recalled that the medical examination at that time was very rigorous, requiring tests of blood, urine, etc. After a series of examinations, his friends were refused medical qualifications。
“my friend had some regrets at the time, because the risk of the drug being tested was not so great that it would be very cost-effective for him to spend two days in a hospital with more than 3,000 of them, and that it was not very good for his family to go to college, and that the availability of such a fund would indeed ease some of the financial pressures.” roh told the press. After some time, his friend gave blood for a multi-nutrient fee of 1,000, “you know, other part-time jobs don't make much money, but they come faster”
Despite the lack of money, roh's friends are still afraid to try the tens of thousands of drug trials. “the tens of thousands of dollars paid must have had a great impact on the body, and it is difficult to tell whether or not the project is worth giving blood.” rowe, like his friends, made “outside money” through blood donations. But he's been on alert for the test。
Little ro has passed the test, unlike little ro, and another group of young people has dared to enter the test circle。
It is reported that wuhan is moving about 1,000 testers, most of whom are students at wuhan colleges. According to press reports, most of these university students are connected through the qq group, the micro-credit group, etc., with a fixed leader, commonly known as the “head”, who is responsible for the flow of information between hospitals and students. When needed, the “heads” send the information to students interested in testing the drug, who undergo a further medical examination to obtain a test slot, and the students of these tests are basically required to take more than 10 blood samples each time。
Indeed, in the eyes of hospitals and pharmaceutical companies, the testers are also “369,” and the most popular tester is a medical student。
“doctors understand why clinical trials should be conducted, and are therefore more cooperative than usual in participating in clinical trials.” according to qui inzong, a researcher at the institute of philosophy of the chinese academy of social sciences and member of the medical ethics committee of the ministry of health. According to qui in-zong, students from medical schools are more involved in clinical trials, not only in china, but also in the united states。
In an interview with the media, professor tanaka, vice-president of the university of chinese medicine, stated that there were more than 6,000 pharmaceutical companies on the mainland, and that more than 10,000 new drugs were approved for registration each year, although more than 90 per cent of them were generic drugs, but clinical trials were also needed, so the demand for testers was high. In many major cities, such as nanjing, beijing and shanghai, students are less likely to participate in clinical drug trials。
According to a survey of the vulcan drug testers, 60 per cent of these drug test students are “dangerous” because of their families’ economic difficulties. Some of the remaining 40 per cent are due to the fact that they spend as much money as they need cash to fill the gap, while others are newly graduated students who earn less than they want. Anyway, there's only one reason for the tester to take the test - money。
Mysterious drug dealer
In the test world, the "head" is a very mysterious character. Many testers may not have seen the face of “heads” or even their real names, but through these “heads” the testers have access to the latest test opportunities。
In the course of the interview, a number of university students indicated to the new people's weekly that leaflets on the drug test had been distributed at the tertiary level but were not very common。
In the early years, the media had reported that some students on university campus had done their own “drugheads”. In the same report, the student xiaowei, who had been a drug tester, became a “head of medicine”, starting with some of the natives or familiar classmates, and then relying on the former to develop a new tester, which is generally not publicly disseminated. As a result of his contacts, approximately 200 students became testers。
Today, the way in which the information about the test drug is disseminated is more contemporary. Journalists have seen advertisements for tests on a number of recruitment websites, which state in detail that “a week's rest and a week's trial, for a total of 14 days and $3,600 for men only, refuses to sign up with text messages”, the company's address is “shanghai national hospital”, but does not indicate which hospital it is, in addition to mr. Wang's mobile phone number。
The journalist tried to call the man, but the phone remained off the phone. Subsequently, journalists called for contact information on four other tester recruitments。
This recruitment information is for the period up to august of this year, but almost all “head” phones are now off-line. Journalists found some of the qqq numbers, known as the test drug set, through the internet bar, but were unable to qualify for access。
In public social media such as weibo, journalists also found information about the recruitment of drug testers. The source claimed that she had been instructed by her friends to forward information from the qq group and that she had never dared to try the drug as a means of earning money. Under her post, a number of people left messages asking whether the test had been filled and indicating that they wanted to participate。
In interviews with the media, staff members who used to be known as beijing's largest drug broker stated that their contacts with the testers were mainly based on twitter and the qq group, and that the testers were marked with numerical classifications. The staff member stated that they would publish the name of the drug, the time of the medical examination, the time of admission, the amount of compensation, the amount of blood sampled, the basic information of the tester and the means of registration and so on. There are about five or six such institutions in beijing. When asked about remuneration, the staff member did not disclose it。
A professional drug tester indicated that after each test the intermediary, the so-called “head”, would draw a portion of the money as an intermediary fee. In shanghai, aicumi (alias), who had received a test drug for a tumour drug, spent two days at the hospital, visited the hospital for four months and finally received a reward of $12,000, while his “head” took an intermediary fee of about $3,000。
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