Chapter 9 3. Tracking down the turbidity of counterfeit drugs

Marx once said: "If you have a 300% profit, you can take the risk of beheading." But he did not expect that a hundred years later, someone would use illegal means to obtain 15,000% of the profit without risking beheading. In a village in Shatian Township, Yulin City, Guangxi, 31 villagers used tablet presses to make counterfeit medicines using talcum powder, pigments, black water and feed as "raw materials". It is said that there was no red brick left in a local kiln. Made into powder. There is a popular saying in the local area: "As long as the machine is moved, it is worth a year's work in the field." If the national price is used, a bottle of 1,000 tablets of chloramphenicol costs more than 90 yuan, and they can press 1 kg of raw materials for less than 1 yuan. 2,000 tablets are sold, at least 150 yuan is sold, and the profit is 15,000%!Li, the director of an individual pharmaceutical factory, used veterinary drugs and starch to make fake antibiotics and sold them many times. The total value of the counterfeit drugs produced and sold in two years was 690,000 yuan, and he made a profit of 260,000 yuan.He owns a three-entry house with a pond, has two wives and 10 children.After less than two years in this business, he claimed that he would give each child 50,000 yuan! "Fight it out, if you catch it, it's yours, if you can't catch it, it's mine!"

At 1 a.m. on December 27, 1991, more than 600 armed men surrounded Nanliu Village, Shatian Township, Yulin City, arrested more than 20 counterfeit drug manufacturers, and seized 1,496 kg of fake drugs and 1,507 kg of fake drug raw materials.The sites for manufacturing counterfeit medicines are almost all located in dirty places such as cow pens and pig pens.They use cassava flour and other pig feed and chicken feed as the main raw materials to produce counterfeit medicines.Using a single-punch tablet machine, more than 10,000 tablets can be made in one night, and hundreds of dollars can be earned after selling.The fake drugs produced mainly include chloramphenicol, erythromycin, oxytetracycline, midecamycin, analgin, etc., and what is sold well is produced.This small village with only 709 households has 50 to 60 tablet presses, which can produce 500,000 to 600,000 fake medicines a night, and several tons a day, which is enough to deceive tens of thousands of patients and delay treatment.

After Yulin, Yangjiang City, Guangdong Province uncovered a larger-scale counterfeit drug manufacturing black den. The fake drugs confiscated alone filled more than a dozen farmhouses, with a price tag of more than 2 million yuan. In Yangxin County and Qingyun County at the junction of Shandong and Hebei, some people mixed sweet potato noodles, talcum powder, starch, vitamin B6, chlorpheniramine, water for injection, and benzyl alcohol to "produce" oxytetracycline and compound Sumophen, Suxiao Ganmao Capsules, Gentamicin, Kanamycin. The Department of Pharmaceutical Administration of the Ministry of Health pointed out that in Hebei, Anhui, Henan, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi and other provinces and regions, there are some farmers who specialize in this kind of business, and some even a dozen or even entire villages have joined forces to become "counterfeit drug manufacturers and sellers." Consortium" has a division of labor from purchasing raw materials, manufacturing, printing (or buying) packaging (including trademarks) to marketing.Put "Made in Shanghai" today, and "Made in Tianjin" tomorrow.

Surprisingly, these evil professional villages of counterfeit medicines not only survive and develop under the eyes of the local government, but also get protection from some local leaders directly or indirectly, intentionally or unintentionally.For the sake of money and interests, some local leaders actually support and protect industries that seek to make money and kill people.In order to find out the situation of the counterfeit drug manufacturers in Nanliu Village, Shatian Township, Yulin City, personnel from the Medical Administration Bureau and the Public Security Bureau had to disguise themselves as road builders and fortune tellers to investigate. Incredible.

A major case of fake tiger bone wine occurred in a city in southern China. A public-private joint winery produces more than 500 tons of tiger bone wine per year, but the factory has only used two kilograms of real tiger bone since 1980.After being seized by the health department, the local municipal government blatantly came forward to protect it, and did not agree to revoke the business license or deal with the parties concerned.With the protection of the local government, counterfeit traders are naturally confident.It is said that someone from this winery that could not be investigated actually sent a telegram to a certain director of the Provincial Health Department: "The production and sales of tiger bone wine from a certain winery are booming, what can I do!"

On the afternoon of April 20, 1999, Shenzhen Bao'an District Industrial and Commercial Bureau seized a fake drug manufacturing factory that used distilled water as raw material.This underground processing factory cannot produce any legal licenses such as business licenses and drug production licenses, and has no real pharmaceutical equipment.According to the observation of law enforcement officers, the factory used distilled water and other raw materials to engage in the "production" of imported drugs.On a delivery list, law enforcement officers found that the delivery units included seven pharmaceutical companies in Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Ningbo, Zhejiang.On another strange "summary of accounts received", law enforcement officers found more problems: First, counterfeit medicines including "Xin San Di Ming", "Lixuezhi", "Sandading", "Interference "Su" and other varieties, and in 1997 alone, there were as many as 80 transactions, with an amount of more than 11 million yuan; second, the customer name on the bill is not the official company name, but the strange "Amon" , "Old Liao" and other code names; third, the accounting time of bills all adopts the so-called "Republic of China" calendar method.Law enforcement officers confiscated more than 1,000 bottles of various counterfeit imported medicines on the spot, and six people including Song from Shandong who were suspected of making and selling counterfeit goods have been detained by the public security organs according to law.

On the evening of April 12, 1999, with the cooperation of the Economic Supervision Section of the Longgang District Industrial and Commercial Bureau of the Pingdi Industrial and Commercial Office, the Pingdi Police Station and the political workers of Guangzhou No. 1 Traditional Chinese Medicine Factory, they investigated and dealt with an underground den that produced and sold counterfeit "Xiaoke Pills". Confiscated 60,000 bottles (100 capsules) of counterfeit "Xiaoke Pills", worth more than 600,000 yuan, a batch of semi-finished products, raw materials, and four semi-automatic pharmaceutical machines.

This underground pharmaceutical den is located in a certain kind of farm in Pingdi Town. The factory building is a temporary iron house, and outside is a chicken, duck, and pig breeding base. The location is quite hidden.This underground counterfeit pharmaceutical factory specializes in the production of "Xiaoke Pills" and fakes the name of Guangzhou No. 1 Traditional Chinese Medicine Factory. The products flow to the market, seriously damaging the interests of consumers and the reputation of Guangzhou No. 1 Pharmaceutical Factory.The industrial and commercial office thoroughly investigated the situation through open and unannounced visits in the past two months, and with the close cooperation of relevant departments, this black den was eliminated in one fell swoop.

Many people know that diabetes is an endocrine disease that seriously threatens human health, and "Xiao Ke Pill" is a major drug for treating diabetes.So many fake "Xiaoke Pills" have flowed into the market. Because they can't achieve the normal curative effect, it is unknown how many diabetic patients will be delayed in treatment, and even endanger their lives. On January 20, 1999, based on reports from the masses, law enforcement officers from the Haikou Municipal Technical Supervision Bureau, together with the police from the Municipal Public Security Bureau, went straight to the No. 10 warehouse of Hainan Cotton and Hemp Native Products Company on Shuchang Road, Xiuying District. In the warehouse of about 150 square meters, there are packing cartons piled up on the left side of the gate almost reaching the roof, and on the right side of the gate there is a low operating table made of three long strips of cardboard boxes, and some men and women who look like migrant workers are densely crowded on both sides.They held a tablet in one hand and a cotton swab in the other, dipped it in a bowl on the stage, and quickly smeared it on the tablet.

Law enforcement officers quickly brought the scene under control.There are 59 migrant workers in the warehouse, and the bowls in front of them are filled with thinner water.The warehouse has a total of 650 boxes of slow-release calcium siguride (slow-release bendipine tablets) tablets marked "produced by Torant Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.", and 390 boxes of instructions.Migrant workers are using thinner to smear off the production batch number, production date, and expiration date on the inner packaging.220 boxes of the antibiotic fluconazole injections produced by the same company were also found at the scene, and the production date on the packaging showed that they were expired drugs.And "Torrant Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd." is an Indian company.Law enforcement officials determined that this place is an underground workshop that manufactures counterfeit and shoddy medicines by falsifying the production dates of medicines.The value of the suspicious drugs seized at the scene was as high as 15 million yuan.

The on-site investigation proved that the underground factory started construction on January 14, 1999. The migrant workers were all from Sichuan, and the boss was a foreigner who lived in a five-star hotel in Haikou.Police officers from the Haikou Public Security Bureau found the foreign man at the hotel and brought him back to the Public Security Bureau for questioning.The man is 34 years old and speaks Mandarin fluently. It is said that he has been doing business in my country for many years. I don't know how he would think of making fake medicines in China to make huge profits. In the past, some people made counterfeit medicines and only made some health care medicines or supplementary medicines, but now those manufacturers and sellers of counterfeit and inferior medicines have already lost their minds. No matter whether it is therapeutic medicine or first-aid medicine, they dare to counterfeit and forge, which is harmful to the world. to the point of no return. In the second half of 1998, the Technical Supervision Bureau of Xinxiang City, Henan Province seized a major case of counterfeiting ordinary injection diluents as "Citicoline" for the treatment of acute craniocerebral trauma. 330,000 counterfeit "Citicoline" were found on the scene. The "choline" injection was seized on the spot, and another 600,000 tubes had been sold to the market. At 4:00 pm on October 6, 1998, the Technical Supervision Bureau of Xinxiang City, Henan Province received a report from the masses that there was a counterfeit den in a remote mountain village in Huixian City that used benzyl alcohol as citicoline injection.Law enforcement officers sealed up the scene at 9 o'clock that night, seized 110 boxes of 330,000 counterfeit medicines, and arrested Song Yunhai, who supervised the production of counterfeit medicines, and sealed up the counterfeit medicine den.Then another suspect, Liu Jinpeng, was arrested. Benzyl alcohol injection is an ordinary diluted liquid for powder injection, and the retail price is only 2.39 yuan per box of 10 sticks; while the retail price of citicoline injection is 28.3 yuan per box of 10 sticks, the price difference is more than ten times.Citicoline injection is often used for acute traumatic brain injury, recovery after surgery, recovery, etc., and it is replaced by fake medicine that has no curative effect, which will delay the patient's recovery and even cause the patient's life to be in danger.According to Liu Jinpeng, 200 boxes of Pseudocytin injection have been sold to Anyang and Tangyin.Henan Provincial Bureau of Technical Supervision issued an urgent notice to the whole province on October 13, instructing the provincial technical supervision department to immediately conduct a major inspection of the province's drug markets and pharmacies, and seal up all pseudocytin injections. Not only are farmers from village to village and groups of self-employed individuals manufacturing counterfeit and inferior medicines, but some state-owned pharmaceutical factories are also defying their own methods by frantically manufacturing and selling counterfeit and inferior medicines. In June 1998, a pharmaceutical company in Guangzhou reported to the Public Security Bureau of Yuexiu District, claiming that a certain medicinal material supply station sold counterfeit medicines from the company.The police verified that the counterfeit medicines came from Liao Yiqiang and Wu Liying, white men from Guangdong Electric.After reports from the masses, the police handling the case arrested Liao and Wu in Zhanjiang on October 28, 1998, and seized a batch of counterfeit medicines on the spot.After a long period of continuous examination, the two confessed that starting in 1995, they bought Chinese medicinal materials from Yulin, Guangxi, provided formulas, and entrusted three state-owned pharmaceutical factories to manufacture counterfeit medicines for them.It has now been found out that the two forged more than a dozen brand-name products from eleven pharmaceutical factories inside and outside the province, including six in Guangdong Province and four in Guangzhou.Counterfeit drugs are mainly sold to Henan, Hebei, Anhui, Guangdong Dianbai, Zengcheng and other places.Due to the invasion of a large number of counterfeit products into the market, the sales volume of these manufacturers in various places has shrunk, resulting in huge economic losses.According to technical analysis and identification, these counterfeit products contain a large amount of starch, sucrose, saccharin and other substances, which cannot achieve the curative effect of genuine medicine at all, and patients will only delay their illness if they take them. Five local companies including Huanggang Hongye Pharmaceutical Chemical Co., Ltd. and Huanggang Yongan Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. in Hubei Province also ignored the provisions of the "National Drug Administration Law". A large number of counterfeit metronidazole drugs are illegally manufactured and sold. During the investigation of Huanggang, the reporter of "China Quality Miles" magazine found that the production scale of five enterprises manufacturing and selling counterfeit drugs in Huanggang was huge.According to their publicity estimates at the National Pharmaceutical Raw Material Ordering Fair and the Canton Fair, the annual output of Huanggang Hongye Pharmaceutical Chemical Co., Ltd. is 1,800 tons, the annual output of Huanggang Yongan Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is 1,200 tons, and the annual output of Hubei Hengri Chemical Group With an output of 1,000 tons, these three companies alone can reach an annual output of 4,000 tons. If the market price is 70 yuan per kilogram, the counterfeiting capacity will reach 280 million yuan! In the domestic market, counterfeiting companies adopt the method of not issuing invoices and selling at low prices, which not only evades huge amounts of taxes, but also causes serious damage to the production and operation of legitimate companies. In 1998, four enterprises including Wuhan Pharmaceutical Factory, Shanxi Jinxin Pharmaceutical General Factory, Tianjin Hebei Pharmaceutical Factory No. 1 Branch, and Guangxi Hechi Pharmaceutical Factory all had production restrictions, production stoppages, inventory backlogs, and forced layoffs.One variety of metronidazole has reduced the country's tax payment by 45 million yuan, and has seriously impacted the selling price of metronidazole exported from my country. In 1996, the export volume of this variety reached 900 tons at about US$10 per kilogram, earning nearly US$10 million in foreign exchange for the country; in 1998, it was difficult to sell this variety at an export price of US$6.5 per kilogram, and the export volume of 1,200 tons only earned US$8 million in foreign exchange. The five metronidazole manufacturers and sellers in Huanggang, whose production is illegal and out of control, and their sales methods have caused a large number of counterfeit drugs to flow into the hands of individuals and private operators, and then enter the market circulation field, mixing with legitimate drugs.Metronidazole contains toxic chemicals. If the quality of its injection is impure, it can cause injury to human beings. The harm to human health should not be underestimated.According to the collected evidence, nearly five tons of counterfeit medicines have been sold in the market just from the invoices of the above-mentioned companies producing and selling counterfeit medicines. Medicine is needed for life-saving and disease-curing, and everyone hopes that it is a good medicine and panacea.Some people who love leisure and work hard and dream of getting rich all day long have found a despicable way to get rich-making "fairy medicine". There are more than 60 peasant households in Xian County, Hebei Province. Gangs and gangs poured into the city from the fields. Several people rented a room in a hotel, rented a mailbox, and then advertised in a newspaper: "Efficient Shanhua brand EYE myopia The potion is 100% effective in treating myopia, and the cure rate is 100%." ​​The profitable business began.Since the eye drops are so effective and have won the National Silver Medal, more than 20 provinces and cities across the country were shocked, and order orders piled up in bundles, and they kept pouring in.In Botou City, Hebei Province alone, there are 23 mailboxes dedicated to postal sales.When they made enough money, people exclaimed that they were fooled.This kind of miraculous eye drops sold for 6-10 yuan turned out to be 0.43 yuan a piece of eye drops. Remittance slips packed in sacks also poured in from Yuezhuang Village, Xuchang County, Henan Province.Almost every household here is making a kind of "fairy medicine" - "Zhan Jin Dan", which is said to be "a precious medicine handed down from generation to generation, which can treat more than ten difficult diseases such as paralysis and rheumatoid arthritis".But when they came to the place where the "fairy medicine" was produced, there was no factory building at all. A few broken washbasins and rotten dustpans were the "alchemy furnace" for farmers to make fairy medicine.They neither understand pharmaceutical technology nor have basic medical knowledge. They just buy the herbal medicine and grind it with a feed mill, and then mix the medicine powder with the batter.The whole family gathers together, just like children kneading mud balls, and the elixir bounces out mixed with the dust in the house, the sweat on the hands, and the spittle of talking and laughing. In the 1980s, they were investigated and prosecuted for defrauding more than 4 million yuan of ill-gotten gains. They were notorious. After six or seven years, they revived. That time it was called "Zhan Jin San", and this time it became "Zhan Jin Dan". "Shenjin Pills" are also hung with signs of "Guangyutang", "Taihetang", and "Lingjing Yuezhuang North Street Pharmaceutical Factory". In the health department of a college in Sichuan, there is a small bungalow with a workbench and several ultraviolet lamps that are quietly lit.Although this small workshop is inconspicuous, what it is producing is a remarkable "cell suspension", and this "cell suspension" is said to be able to treat cancer.Its production method is quite simple. After a mother induces labor, the fetus's organs are quickly sent here, and the grinding machine starts to hum.The efficiency of the grinding machine is not low. Three to eight bottles of 300ml "Baoye" can be turned out each time, each bottle worth more than 300 yuan.What is especially amazing is that this small workshop for creating new methods of cancer treatment has only two staff members, a doctor and a nurse.Like pickling pickles in their own home, they easily made this "cell suspension" that brought "good news" to cancer patients.How much "cell suspension" they produced in total is not known exactly. The relevant department only investigated within three months and found that they sold 180,000 yuan of "cell suspension", which shows its high economic benefits .But for patients with great expectations, not only has no curative effect, but some have also caused serious adverse reactions. At 9:00 am on October 21, 1998, the Drug Administration Bureau of the Anhui Provincial Health Department received a telephone report from the Amber Villa Police Station of the Xishi District Public Security Bureau of Hefei City, saying that someone in the home of Chen Yongjin, a tenant in Room 102, Building 68, of Amber Villa, was filling capsules without permission. , requesting the Drug Administration to immediately send someone to investigate.After receiving the report, the person in charge of the Drug Administration led the relevant personnel to rush to the scene of Amber Villa.In room 102 where Chen Yongjin rented, there were piles of medicine powders, capsules, labels and various manual pharmaceutical tools everywhere. Two workers hired by Chen Yongjin were filling the capsules by hand, and the floor was a mess.Investigators searched the room carefully and brought relevant items, tools and personnel back to the Bureau to continue the investigation.After counting, the items seized included: 23 kinds of fake labels totaling more than 200,000 pieces, some inner and outer packaging bags and instructions for use; two unit seals and two special financial seals; 30.7 kg of capsules containing medicines, 158.2 kg of medicine powders and patent medicines There were also 73 kinds of fake medicine packaging bags, prescriptions and drug reimbursement receipts marked with Hefei Xishi District People's Hospital, Anhui Provincial Medical District Ganxiu No. 2 Outpatient Department, and Luyang Hospital Hemagnetism Outpatient Department. After investigation, the West District People's Hospital rented rooms for Chen Yongjin to open various specialties, and provided receipts to collect money on his behalf. Chen used this as a pretext to use high salaries and kickbacks to hire retired doctors to sell various types of counterfeit medicines for him.The hospital not only did not stop it, but condoned and even participated in its sales of counterfeit medicines, which was suspected of accepting bribes.Chen used the signboard of a regular hospital to successively set up departments of ophthalmology, tracheitis, otolaryngology and psychiatry in the hospital, and brought the fake medicines he made in the rented house directly to the rented medical clinic for sale. When prescribing a prescription, only the surname is left, and the price is set by himself, and the hospital billing office assists him in charging, and the settlement is based on the prescription.The hospital only collects rent and does not review or supervise its activities.The Hemagnetism Outpatient Department of Luyang Hospital was actually controlled by Chen Yongjin. He bought a Hemagnetism Therapy Apparatus for 80,000 yuan and hired a doctor. In addition to providing remuneration, he also gave the doctor a rebate of 1.5% to 2% of the prescription according to the prescription. , prompting doctors to use their homemade fake medicines.In order to make huge profits, they also put different labels on the same fake medicine according to different diseases, change the name of the medicine, and harm patients.What's more serious is that the No. 2 Ganxiu Hospital contracted the illegally opened external outpatient department to Chen Yongjin to operate independently, and provided him with various necessary medical procedures. The hospital only charged 120,000 yuan in rent and management fees every year, and ignored other issues. .Under the guise of the "director" of the outpatient department, Chen bluffed and deceived everywhere, opened multiple specialties such as psychiatry and diabetes, hired doctors himself, and sold more than 20 kinds of self-made counterfeit medicines for them. Chen only made a profit of 30 yuan a year for this one place. More than ten thousand yuan.He also signed contracting and leasing contracts with other hospitals everywhere, opened specialized clinics, and expanded the illegal activities of defrauding doctors and medicines. Chen also invested more than 200,000 yuan in advertising on many news media, causing many patients The counterfeit medicines were purchased by mail from all over the country, and the mail-order remittance to the second outpatient department of a certain Ganxiu was found to be more than 130,000 yuan at the post office.Some patients not only delayed their illness but even died because of taking counterfeit mail-order medicines.The Anhui Provincial Department of Health believes: "This is an illegal and criminal case in which social traveling drug dealers colluded with health and medical institutions to cheat by manufacturing and selling counterfeit medicines in the name of practicing medicine." This Chen Yongjin, from March 1997 to April 1998, made a profit of more than 2 million yuan from the contracted clinics of the above three hospitals.In Xishi District People's Hospital alone, he sold 980,000 yuan of counterfeit medicines a year, and Chen withdrew more than 880,000 yuan in cash. After the incident, Chen Yongjin has disappeared and is still at large. Professor Wang Zhaoming, chairman of the Rheumatic Diseases Professional Committee of the China Association of Integrative Medicine and a famous rheumatology expert, was a researcher at Tianjin College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine.This old doctor has always been meticulous in clinical research, rigorous in academic research, self-disciplined, and educated.He never dreamed that someone would use his prestige to deceive people for money.Two farmers from Fujian bought a bottle of Wang Zhaoming's Rheumatism and Cold Pain Tablets from Tianjin Jinhua Rheumatism Hospital in the name of seeing a doctor. Drug prices are sold to patients through a government hospital.In order to convince the patients, this hospital also created a scam that Wang Zhaoming went to the hospital for free consultation, widely advertised through the media, and falsely claimed that "one or two courses of medicine can cure rheumatism" and so on.Professor Wang Zhaoming said that rheumatism is a common and frequently-occurring disease with complex etiology, lingering and difficult to heal. At present, in the medical field at home and abroad, it is considered as an intractable disease with unknown etiology.In our country, through decades of hard work, the method of combining traditional Chinese and Western medicine to treat both symptoms and root causes provides an early cure for the disease diagnosed in the early stage. However, the disease can only be controlled in the middle stage of the disease, and can only improve the symptoms in the late stage. What cure?Changing the package of the drug he formulated, he charged a sky-high price of thousands of yuan. The courage and despicable methods of this counterfeit drug dealer made him very angry. In some bazaars or drug markets in Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Shanxi and other places, there is a rampant trade in counterfeit medicines.Some moldy, deteriorating, expired and obsolete medicines are also openly sold, some medicines stored at low temperature and away from light, such as gamma globulin, coenzyme A, and some countries expressly prohibit the sale of dramatic drugs and psychotropic drugs on the market, such as atropine sulfate, The paracetamol tablets, etc. were also grandly placed on the street stalls. In the medicinal material market in many places, the activities of dealing in counterfeit and inferior drugs have reached the point of flagrantness.According to statistics, the annual distribution of medicines in two medicinal materials markets in a certain province is more than 400 million yuan, at least 10% of which are counterfeit and inferior medicines.Unscrupulous self-employed people openly sell counterfeit medicines on the counter.Some even publicly stated that there are two kinds of genuine and fake medicines for sale, and the same invoice can be issued.So some drug dealers bargain and buy fake drugs in large quantities. It is incomprehensible that such an unreasonable market is actually protected by some local leaders as a cornucopia.Some of them "buy" licenses from other local health departments across provinces, or print their own certificates, and distribute them to some self-employed individuals who do not have business conditions at all, thus forming such a "black-hearted" market. Lianqiao medicinal material market in Shaodong County, one of the top ten medicinal material markets in the country, is crowded with 327 drug dealers with thousands of employees on a site of about one square kilometer, and the annual drug turnover is tens of millions of yuan.Before the rectification, 25% of operators distributed counterfeit medicines. Here, cassava becomes yam, mirabilis and bamboo shoots become Gastrodia elata, and the stomachs of precious seahorses are filled with paraffin and soil; Wrapped with medicine andrographis paniculata, coated with sugar, and dyed with color, it becomes "chloramphenicol".These counterfeit medicines were shipped in sacks of sacks, bottled and sealed, and false labels were affixed, and they became "qualified" products of more than 100 national regular pharmaceutical factories in Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi and other provinces. In the east of the Xiangjiang Bridge in Changsha City, there is also a medicinal material market where merchants gather.They illegally buy and sell counterfeit medicines by negotiating prices on-site and picking up goods off-site.They use low prices and high kickbacks to lure some grass-roots pharmaceutical units to reckless profits, causing patients to suffer greatly.Fake chloramphenicol, fake tetracycline, fake oxytetracycline, fake analgesic tablets and fake Analgin, which are called "five poisons" by the masses, can be bought on the black market for only 9-22 yuan per thousand tablets, while the price of real drugs is The state-run wholesale price is 30.5-101.6 yuan.Just because of the huge price difference, some lawbreakers want fake medicine instead of real medicine, and money instead of life!There are 1,300 individual clinics in Guiyang City, and most of them buy from the medicinal materials market, because the prices here are generally only 1/2 to 1/3 of those in drugstores. Many individual medicinal material markets are regarded as "cornucopias" by local governments, and have been supported and supported by local governments since their formation.Some manufacturers of long-term counterfeit products are protected by the local government just because they are big taxpayers in the local government, which creates a breeding ground for chaos in the pharmaceutical market.When the local government also uses "opening drug stores" as a means of poverty alleviation, fake and inferior drugs will have a protective umbrella, and a vicious circle of drinking poison to quench thirst will begin.The deputy mayor of one place blatantly said to the law enforcement officers: "You banned this medicine market, I lost tens of thousands of yuan in taxes, and hundreds of people were unemployed. Are you responsible?" We couldn't help but ask him loudly here: "Can you take responsibility for precious lives being poisoned by counterfeit medicine?" Plastic has been imitated into gallinaceous gold, mercury has been injected into Cordyceps sinensis, and red brick powder has been mixed into safflower... The chaotic situation in the medicinal material market cannot but arouse the attention and anxiety of people from all walks of life. According to the "Market Daily" report, most of the more than 100 professional markets for traditional Chinese medicinal materials in the country before the rectification violated the relevant laws and regulations of the state, selling Chinese and Western medicines and other biological products that are prohibited by the state from being sold in professional markets for traditional Chinese medicinal materials.The professional market of Chinese medicinal materials has violated the country’s original intention of opening a professional market of Chinese medicinal materials in the early stage of reform and opening up. It has become a distribution center for counterfeit, inferior and counterfeit medicines, which has brought great harm to people’s lives and safety. It has reached the point of rectification Degree.In the first half of 1995 alone, counterfeit and inferior drugs worth more than 1.5 million yuan were detected in Guiyang City, almost all of which came from the medicinal material market. Most of the medicinal materials market is illegally operating and processing traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces.Wang Xiaotao of the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine said that the production of decoction pieces of traditional Chinese medicine is mostly carried out in rural areas. Many farmers do not have the conditions and technology for processing traditional Chinese medicine. In the courtyard where chickens and ducks flock, some decoction pieces have been moth-eaten or moldy, and they are shoddy, which is shocking.There are also a large number of adulterated Chinese medicinal materials, which have seriously affected the quality of traditional Chinese medicines, and fatal incidents have occurred from time to time due to taking unqualified toxic Chinese medicines. In recent years, due to the reduction of planting area and resources, the impact of natural disasters, and the booming domestic and export markets, the social demand has continued to increase, and the contradiction between production and demand in the Chinese herbal medicine market has become increasingly exposed, resulting in a general rise in the price of medicinal materials.Due to the sharp increase in the price of medicines, some criminals, in order to pursue personal economic interests, have actually produced a large number of fake and inferior Chinese medicinal materials, harming patients and the country. According to the situation encountered by many hospitals, the main manifestations of fake and inferior Chinese herbal medicines and the harm they cause are as follows: 1. A large amount of non-medicinal parts are mixed in: because Chinese medicinal materials are mostly natural products, some contain impurities such as sediment, and some are mixed with dead parts. Among medicinal plants, some parts have toxic and side effects, and some parts have no medicinal effect Or the quality is poor, and some have different drug effects due to different parts.Therefore, Chinese medicinal materials must be purified before they can be used as medicine.Some individuals or organizations who illegally resell medicinal materials for profit, intentionally do not purify Chinese medicinal materials according to the law, so that a large number of non-medicinal parts of plants are mixed into traditional Chinese medicinal materials with high prices or varieties that are in short supply in the market. 2. Impurities or counterfeit products are artificially mixed into authentic medicinal materials: such as sugar and sand in honeysuckle, safflower, and chrysanthemum, lead-containing bean sticks embedded in Panax notoginseng, and even poisonous celestiaceae in sand garden seeds, and injection of Cordyceps sinensis Mercury and the list goes on and on.Its consequence causes the reduction of curative effect, directly threatens the patient's health and life safety. 3. Phenomenon of homonymy and foreign matter, fake ones: the mixing of some varieties not specified in the Pharmacopoeia, such as plant tissues mixed in Peucedanum and asters, etc., it is difficult to identify what it is, and the consequences of use are unpredictable. On September 29, 1994, the State Council issued the "Urgent Notice on Further Strengthening Drug Management Work", which clearly stated at the beginning of the notice: There are still many problems in drug management, some of which are quite serious.The illegal and criminal activities of manufacturing and selling counterfeit and inferior medicines have reached the time when we have to make great efforts to solve them. When the State Council issued the notice, there were already 135 medicinal material markets across the country, which were generally engaged in the wholesale of Chinese and Western patent medicines mixed with counterfeit and inferior prohibited drugs for sale.After half a year of rectification, there were 75 left by the end of June 1995, and after more intensive rectification in the second half of the year, there were about 30 left by the end of the year.It should be said that the situation of blindly opening the medicinal materials market and chaotic management has been reversed and controlled to a certain extent.However, in the existing Chinese herbal medicine market, it is still very common to deal in Chinese and Western patent medicines and counterfeit and inferior products.The inspection team organized by the State Council went to the drug market and saw that it was neat and tidy. The next day, they escaped from the company and visited the drug market in Weifu again, but it was completely different.At the Yulin Traditional Chinese Medicine Market in Guangxi, under the temperature of 30 degrees Celsius, there are biological preparations such as low-molecular dextran under extremely strict storage conditions on the stalls.Ask the owner: "Can this medicine still be used?" Answer: "Why not! The package is not broken, and the date has not passed." Two old professors, Wang Xiaotao and Jin Shiyuan, well-known experts in traditional Chinese medicine, carefully browsed all kinds of Chinese medicine decoction pieces in the Hebei Anguo Chinese medicine market, and said helplessly: "I have been engaged in Chinese medicine all my life, and I have never seen such quality. Poor decoction pieces!” In the past, people always thought that the victims of Chinese and Western patent medicines and counterfeit medicines illegally sold in the Chinese herbal medicine market were basically no more than 30% of the floating population in the vast rural areas and cities and citizens who paid for medical treatment at their own expense.However, the person in charge of the Anguo Chinese herbal medicine market said proudly: "Customers from big cities in more than ten provinces (regions) across the country come to buy medicines. We sell no less than 50 tons of decoction pieces every day. Among them, 80% of Beijing, Tianjin 70% of the traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces prescribed by the medical units in the city come from our Anguo Chinese medicine market." No wonder more and more people feel that "taking medicine and doing nothing" turns out that there are so many counterfeit medicines at work. Regarding the problems in the medicinal materials market, it is not that we have not found out, and it is not that the law enforcement agencies have not taken actions at all, but they are always insufficient and the measures are not firm.In recent years, Yunnan Baiyao, which is under the national first-class protection of traditional Chinese medicine, has been counterfeited in large numbers in the market, making manufacturers and consumers hard to guard against.It is understood that since June 1997, counterfeit Yunnan Baiyao has been found in the drug wholesale markets in Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Anhui, Hubei, Guangdong, Liaoning and other provinces, as well as cities such as Chengdu, Wuhan and Shenyang. Since 1998, the fake Yunnan Baiyao sold in these provinces and cities has returned to the drug wholesale market in Yunnan Province. In May 1998, the Baoshan City Public Security Bureau seized 19 pieces of fake Yunnan Baiyao imported from Hunan. Before May 1998, the counterfeit Yunnan Baiyao was still limited to bottled products (at that time, Yunnan Baiyao Group Company believed that if only the bottle was fake, it would simply be converted into capsules to prevent counterfeiting), and now there are counterfeit products in Guangdong and Anhui markets. The capsules are Yunnan Baiyao, and the anti-counterfeiting signs are also following suit.Fake Yunnan Baiyao can be seen everywhere in Bozhou, Taihe, Anhui Province, and Mazhang medicinal herb markets in Zhanjiang, Guangdong.Yunnan Baiyao Group successively sent people to crack down on counterfeiting, but none of them worked.The reason for this is that there are different degrees of local protectionism in many places, so the crackdown on counterfeit drugs is not effective; second, some local law enforcement agencies refuse to cooperate on the grounds that they have no funds and no means of transportation. Some places even propose that if counterfeit drugs are seized For Yunnan Baiyao, it is required to reward 20% or 30% of the price of the real medicine.Yunnan Baiyao Group has limited manpower and financial resources, so it is really difficult to pay the huge anti-counterfeiting fee. As a result, the anti-counterfeiting turned into a "fake crackdown", and in the end it was tantamount to not cracking down. Considering the needs of domestic and foreign economic and trade circulation, how many Chinese medicinal materials markets are suitable for our country?According to the introduction of the national traditional Chinese medicine management department, after more than a thousand years of circulation and natural coordination, until the middle of this century, there are only five traditional drug markets in my country that have naturally formed in Anguo in Hebei, Baiquan and Yuzhou in Henan, Bozhou in Anhui and Zhangshu in Jiangxi. In the mid-1980s, with the prosperity of the rural economy, five new drug markets appeared successively in Guangzhou Qingping, Chengdu Hehuachi, Guangxi Yulin, Hunan Lianqiao, and Xi'an Wanshou Road.The new and old top ten pharmaceutical markets have formed a basically suitable distribution pattern of the national medicinal material circulation market.However, since 1990, the medicinal materials market has been out of control.For example, Hunan Province has set up 24 places, Guangdong Province has set up 17 places, Henan Province and Gansu Province have set up seven places each. The local government is raising huge sums of money to build a market for Chinese herbal medicines.After the State Council issued the "Urgent Notice on Further Strengthening the Administration of Drugs", there are still some illegal drug markets that have not been closed, some have been opened openly or have changed from centralized to decentralized, and Chinese and Western patent medicines are still illegally traded.This is directly related to the lack of understanding of some local governments, their lack of grasp, or their reluctance to do so. Some people have become accomplices of counterfeit drug dealers invisibly for kickbacks and for cheap.Some medical institutions are mercenary, regardless of the quality of the medicine and the purchase channel, whoever sells it cheaply and gives the most kickbacks will buy the medicine.Two purchasers of Sichuan Changcheng Steel Factory Hospital bought medicines from illegal drug dealers, and their kickbacks amounted to more than 20,000 yuan a year.According to industry insiders, some hospitals now buy drugs even though they are aware of quality problems, and selectively apply them to ordinary patients.It is said that the hospital strictly abides by the principle of "three don'ts": the leading cadres don't use any counterfeit medicines, the hospital staff don't use them, and the night shift emergency department doesn't use them. 据查，湖南省某县人民医院一年时间就从个体药贩手中共购西药（部分中成药）价值50万元左右，占医院购药总数的30～40%。该院卖出的鹿茸精注射液纯系假冒。 某人民医院制剂室主任先后从7个单位收受贿赂53933元，被判刑10年，新上任的主任不到半年，受贿又达5万元余元。一个医院药房的采购员犯案后，公安人员在其家搜出3公斤黄金，沙发垫里全是钞票！ 药品采购中的回扣现象导致假冒伪劣药品大量流入医院。在药品市场上，有些采购人员把回扣的多少作为决定买谁的药和不买谁的药的依据。假药劣药，就是这样流入医院，登堂入室，堂而皇之地摆上了药品柜。许多人的健康因此而受损，许多人的生命因此而丧失。