Drug tester
As drug testers used to describe people who for the pharmaceutical industry to develop new drugs to side effects test or compatibility. In the pharmaceutical industry, drug testers are also referred to as test subjects .
The pharmaceutical industry advertises with large offers of money for new test subjects who take possible health risks for it.
Investigative journalists as drug testers
This form of earning money achieved literary “fame” with the publication of the book “ Quite Below ” by Günter Wallraff . He described how after the first test run with new drugs for epilepsy, because of the most severe side effects, he stopped the tests instead of going through three more tests within three months as agreed.
literature
- Günter Wallraff: At the bottom. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-462-01716-0