“My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinson's diseases, diabetes or blood diseases.” GoalTechnologyBloodDrugDiseaseTreatsPatientDecadesTrialsCellsDiabetesClinicalsParkinsonParkinson'sClinical Trials Author:Shinya Yamanaka
“If you had a magic wand today, and you had one wish - to wipe out all the drug dealers, take them all off the streets and put them in jail, no trial, everybody who sold drugs would automatically be convicted. You know what's going to happen? There's going to be new ones. Why? Because the drug users are going to create them.” IfsKnowsHappensTodayWishMagicStreetsDrugTrialsJailUsersWipeDealerWandsDrug DealersMagic Wands Author:Rick Ross
“When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug.” CertainResponsibilityCompanyDrugAssumingProfitTrialsMarginsClinicalsBlockbusterProfit MarginClinical Trials Author:Anthony S. Fauci
“AZT was never meant to treat HIV. It was meant to treat cancer and, when it was discovered to be toxic, the drug companies stopped clinic trials of the drug because it was so toxic. Is this drug really one we want to use?” WantUseCompanyDrugTreatsCancerTrialsToxicHivClinicDrug Companies Author:Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
“With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.” ThinkingWarModernDrugTrialsWitchExcessBrutalRelianceWar On DrugsModern DaySalemWitch TrialsInformantsSalem Witch TrialsSnitch Author:Joel Miller
“When a drug comes out [that's broadly prescribed] there are going to start to be a lot of people on it [in a million person cohort] and you might get therefore an early signal of something unexpected that hadn't come through in the clinical trials. And I'm sure [drug companies] would love it if, in fact, FDA, recognizing that, would say, OK, maybe you don't have to do your trial with 30,000 people because we're going to find out shortly after registration because we'll have a lot of people taking the drug and we'll be able to see what happened using PMI.” PeopleIfsPersonsFactsMightAbleCompanyMillionsHappenedDrugTrialsUnexpectedSignalsRecognizingClinicalsFdaRegistrationDrug CompaniesSomething UnexpectedClinical Trials Author:Francis Collins
“Every dollar spent to punish a drug user or seller is a dollar that cannot be spent collecting restitution from a robber. Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child. Every trial held to prosecute a drug user or seller is court time that could be used to prosecute a rapist in a case that might otherwise have been plea bargained.” ChildrenHas BeensMightUsedHoursCasesMissingDrugCourtDollarsTrialsUsersCould Have BeenCollectingProhibitionSellersRobbersInvestigatingDrug ProhibitionRestitution Author:Randy Barnett
“If we want to think about racism and how it might play out in drug policy, we have to think about the trial of George Zimmerman. We think about the prosecution, when they said "race is not a factor." It's so dishonest.” IfsThinkingWantSaidPlayMightRacePolicyDrugRacismTrialsFactorsThey SaidProsecutionDrug PolicyZimmerman Author:Carl Hart
“I'm not the kind of person who could join AA or have rules for myself or on Thursday take this vitamin pill. So, basically, I learned the hard way. I learned by trial and error, and tried to get drugs out of my work. That took about a year. If I was going to work, it was best that I be straight. And I was surprised at what came out.” IfsWayYearsKindPersonsHardDrugErrorsTrialsWorking ItGoing To WorkPillsVitaminsThursdayHard WayTrial And Error Author:Iggy Pop