Chapter 353 Drug Withdrawal
After communicating with Dr. Jerry, Zhang Ailun put away his phone, put on his coat, and went out to the Kiliyad Mountains.
After saying hello to Old Jack and the others, and asking Sig to cooperate with Zorro and the others in their preparations, he went out in his Wrangler and drove away from Newport Villa and Los Angeles.
It took some time for the vehicle to reach the Kiliyad Mountains in the suburbs. As soon as he arrived at the foot of the mountain, Zhang Ailun saw the Beggars' Sect disciples patrolling intensively.
After asking, we learned that many restless gangs from outside had appeared in the vicinity recently. The Beggars' Sect disciples had arrested two gangs of human traffickers and sent them to the mountains to work as coolie laborers.
The smugglers who were delivered yesterday resisted obedience and some even tried to escape, but they were also caught by them. They had no choice but to increase vigilance.
After Zhang Ailun understood the situation, he didn't care about it. He drove straight to the mountain camp. There was no obstruction along the way and he parked the car in the yard.
After getting off the car, the remaining Beggars' Sect disciples saw that it was the chief leader who came over, and they also came forward to greet him enthusiastically. Zhang Allen also responded and asked, "Where is Dr. Jerry?"
"He is still doing research in the laboratory. He also said in advance that the research process and privacy are very important, and outsiders are not allowed to get close unless they have something important to do." The Beggar Gang disciple replied: "Boss, do you need me to take you there?"
"No, take me to see the laborers who tried to escape yesterday." Zhang Ailun said, "They failed to escape. Didn't Dr. Jerry give them injections?"
"Not yet. Because we caught them yesterday and beat them up. Now they are covered in wounds and are not suitable for experiments." The Beggar Gang disciple replied, turned around and took the chief leader to the labor concentration camp.
When he arrived here and opened the door, the leader saw several people lying on the beds, their faces and noses swollen and bandaged like mummies.
Seeing them like this, the chief felt relieved.
The Beggars' Sect disciple said, "Boss, they have all been given tranquilizers. Some of them accidentally broke their legs when climbing over the wall. They definitely can't run away."
"Are you sure they broke their legs by themselves?" Zhang Ailun asked.
"Sure!" The Beggar Gang disciple remained calm.
"Very good." Zhang Ailun nodded with satisfaction.
Then he turned around and walked to the smuggler's bed, looking at the conscious man, and asked: "You took the initiative to provoke me. When I was at sea, I didn't kill you directly. I chose to spare your lives and transferred you here. I paid you wages, provided you with food and accommodation. The treatment was so good, but you don't know how to be grateful, and you even want to escape? What are you thinking?"
When the smugglers saw the chief leader coming, they felt their scalps tingling and begged, "Mr. Jin, we were wrong. We will never run away again."
"Save these words for God. It seems that gentle means cannot make you obedient." Zhang Ailun sentenced them in his mind. He counted them and found that there were five or six people in total. He turned around and led the Beggars' Sect disciples out of the door and asked, "How many of them like to smoke leaves?"
"Boss, there is no one who doesn't smoke." The Beggar Gang disciple replied.
Zhang Allen nodded and instructed, "Then when their injuries get better, send them to Dr. Jerry for diagnosis. They can't work anyway. If there is a first time, there will be a second time. They escaped once, and even if they fail, they will think there will be a second time. They will not give up."
"Understood." The Beggar Gang disciple immediately agreed.
"Our camp construction work is almost done, right?" Zhang Ailun asked again. On the way here, he saw that the gate had been repaired and new houses had been rebuilt in many places.
"Currently, 90% of the work has been completed. Even the sewer pipes have been repaired." The Beggar Gang disciple replied.
"Those who were sent here before, if they have behaved well, let them go. Tell them to be more honest in the future, find a class to attend, and stop engaging in improper industries." The chief leader is still very generous and has decided to release a group of people after serving their sentences.
"Won't they be sent to jail? They are all human traffickers." The Beggar Gang disciple asked in surprise.
I thought that after the leader had used these people, he would send them to jail for life.
"There's no need for that. They've already been punished here. They're all young people. After this profound lesson, they'll know what to do in the future." Zhang Ailun waved his hand.
Because the most heinous guys had already been given injections by Dr. Jerry and were lying in bed eating liquid food like the priest, and the rest were accomplices with less serious crimes.
"As long as they don't go out and talk nonsense, we will send someone to follow them for a while. If we find anyone repeating the same mistakes and doing their old business, we will catch them again. We won't have to expect them to work as laborers then. We can just give them an injection to teach them a lesson," said Zhang Ailun.
"Understood." The Beggar Gang disciples nodded, and some immediately did as they were told.
The workers who were originally working diligently to tighten screws were suddenly informed of this good news and felt a little unbelievable. They never expected that one day they would be released from prison.
Some were overjoyed and were very grateful to the leader.
The Beggars' Sect disciples also urged them to pack up their belongings quickly. They would be responsible for arranging vehicles to take them off Mount Kiliyad and return home. Those who had no home would be sent to the nearest shelter.
They were repeatedly warned not to talk nonsense outside, to forget what happened on the mountain, to pretend they had never been here, and not to engage in gray work after they got out, otherwise once the people on the mountain found out, they would be caught again, and at the very least they would be sent to prison for life, or at the worst they would be given injections!
Naturally, the workers did not dare to do this and repeatedly assured that they would work in legitimate industries after being released.
After all, they were engaged in human trafficking before, and they were all gang members. The main culprits were all taken away by Dr. Jerry for injections and have become demented. Their crimes were relatively minor, so they escaped. But they don't want to be caught and injected again.
This is simply not a life for human beings because they have no freedom!
Zhang Ailun turned around and left the labor concentration camp and went to the laboratory. When he first arrived here, he saw Dr. Jerry giving injections to the new experimenter. He waited outside for a while. When the other party finished his research work, he came out with Tom and Dr. Snoopy.
"Mr. Jin, you're here!" Dr. Jerry took off his white coat and gloves, took off his mask and was about to give the leader a warm hug.
"No need to hug. Where is the medicine you are researching?" Zhang Ailun declined his hug and went straight to the point, asking about their research results. "This is the new drug addiction treatment medicine we are researching." Dr. Jerry turned around and took out the silver safe. After unlocking the code, he took out several blue medicines from it.
"It is a drug that we have improved and optimized based on the original special medicine. While reducing side effects and complications, it can also effectively reduce the user's dependence on addictive drugs, and prescribe the right medicine from the perspective of the whole body and mind."
He introduced it eloquently: "Ordinary drugs on the market have only a single effect. For example, drugs that help people quit smoking make the user's body produce special enzymes to reject the intake of nicotine, thus causing nausea, vomiting and dizziness. Over time, they will naturally quit smoking. But it can only quit smoking, but not quit leaves, let alone drugs. And the process of quitting smoking is also very painful! It is equivalent to forcing you to reject the intake of addictive substances."
"This special medicine we are researching is effective for all characteristics of drug dependence. It solves people's dependence on drugs from the root and helps the patient's body transform to the physical characteristics of a normal person without taking drugs, including painkillers!"
"As long as this drug is injected, the body will not need to take drugs for a short period of time. The withdrawal process is also very long, and it takes several courses of treatment to completely quit. But the trauma of the body can only be restored by time. If you are too old, it is not recommended to use this drug because they do not have enough physical strength to support the transformation of the body. It is also not very effective for addicts who develop pathological characteristics in the later stage because their bodies have already rotted away."
“Is this considered a finished drug?”
Zhang Ailun looked at the medicine. He knew nothing about drug research and couldn't understand the principle behind it. He asked, "Does it mean that in addition to helping people quit drugs, it can also help people quit smoking and sex addiction? It will be effective for all addictive behaviors?"
"Yes, this is equivalent to a special tranquilizer that makes people forget the secretion of adrenaline and the happiness of dopamine." Dr. Jerry explained: "It is also like after you finish masturbating, there will be a short period of emptiness and you can't raise your head. As long as this time is extended and masturbation does not bring pleasure, you will naturally reduce your dependence and even quit."
"It sounds more like it makes people lose their emotions..." Zhang Ailun said in surprise.
"There is still a big difference." Dr. Jerry did not explain too much, but just said: "Anyone with heart disease and nephrotic syndrome, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, severe depression and congenital infectious diseases cannot use this drug."
Dr. Jerry said: "Although this special medicine is effective, it also depends on whether the patient cooperates and whether he is determined to quit drug addiction. We also used physical and pharmacological dual regulation before to get people to quit the leaves."
What you call physical therapy is probably electrotherapy combined with fists.
"Can it pass the review of the Food and Drug Administration and make money when it goes on the market?" Zhang Ailun asked.
"Yes." Dr. Jerry nodded and replied confidently, "This is an auxiliary drug. The raw materials and effects are both benign. If we find a pharmaceutical company to cooperate with, it can be put on the market for sale. As for whether anyone is willing to buy it, I don't know."
After all, he is only responsible for research, not sales.
Good drugs may not necessarily have a market. Instead, those drugs that have little effect and are expensive will have a large market. After all, it is easy to make money from them, and if they can make money, there will be people willing to cooperate to occupy the market.
In addition, many people become addicted to drugs just for the thrill and feel that life is meaningless. This is their own choice.
Even if you want to quit drugs on a whim, you may be repenting for why you have become like this in the last second, and start looking for a needle in the next second.
Even if this drug has a pharmaceutical patent and someone is found to jointly sell it, it will be difficult for it to be sold all over the world. It will even be difficult to sell it across borders. After all, this will inevitably affect the sales of the drug industry.
But the leader is not afraid of their revenge.
"It doesn't matter. We only need to sell it in pharmacies on the market, and mainly target the market of drug rehabilitation centers. As long as we find pharmaceutical companies to cooperate with us, they will help us handle these things, unless they don't want to make money. What is the production cost of such drugs?" Zhang Ailun asked.
"The cost price is about $60-80 per dose. It can only be injected, not taken orally. A course of treatment costs several thousand dollars, but it is affordable enough for ordinary families." Dr. Jerry replied.
"You did a good thing!"
Zhang Ailun recognized their scientific research capabilities. He immediately took out his mobile phone, found Mori Dees's personal number, contacted him, and told him that there was a new drug that he wanted to jointly sell.
Mori was also surprised after receiving the news and asked: "Mr. Jin, as far as I know, aren't you engaged in the waste recycling industry? You also do some military trade part-time. When did you switch to the medical industry?"
Zhang Ailun: I have a friend who has been engaged in the research of withdrawal reactions of addictive drugs and has made major breakthroughs in medical research. I have also come here to test it myself and feel that this drug has a great market potential, so I am thinking about cooperating with you in sales. After all, your Miracle Pharmaceuticals Company still has a lot of energy and sales in the drug market.
Mori instantly became interested and replied: Mr. Jin, our Miracle Pharmaceuticals is indeed holding an event, and many private medical teams are competing for the bid, wanting to cooperate with us. However, for the specific drug situation, I still need to let a professional scientific research team conduct laboratory research. What is the main purpose of this addiction treatment drug you mentioned?
Zhang Ailun: This drug can help patients quit smoking, sex, drugs, and any other addictive behaviors. The main effect depends on the individual's dosage and lifestyle.
The chief sent the edited introduction of Dr. Jerry to the other party, along with pictures of the things.
Morrie: I am very interested in it. You know, more than half of the families in America are suffering from addictive drugs, and painkillers account for the majority of them. Almost every family cannot do without painkillers. But I am a little worried about its effect!
Zhang Ailun: Are you worried that it won’t be useful enough?
Morrie: I'm worried that it's too effective! The market for painkillers is too huge. Our company's research team has done relevant research and has developed results, but that withdrawal drug was stopped and taken off the shelves the day before it was launched, and even the research team was taken away for questioning. So, if your drug is mainly aimed at painkillers and opioids, it may not be well received in the sales market!
Zhang Ailun: It only targets drugs like leaves and cocoa. It has no effect on the addictive response to painkillers and opioids, not one bit.
Morrie: That's fine. Mr. King, I happen to have some time now, so I can bring someone over to test your drugs.
Zhang Ailun immediately sent the coordinates of the Kiliya Mountains to the other party.
Zhang Ailun: I'm waiting for your arrival here.
Morrie: OK.
After putting away his phone, Zhang Allen looked back at Dr. Jerry and the others and spread his hands. "I guess you'd better delete the effects on painkillers and the like. Otherwise, this drug will not pass the drug test, let alone be put on the market for sale."
"These damn capitalists." Dr. Jerry cursed and spat, "This won't be a problem for us. We just need to improve the formula. But those patients will continue to suffer."
"They've gotten used to it. It's no problem for them to suffer for a few hundred more years."
The leader doesn't want to be a saint.
(End of this chapter)
