How do clinical drug trials work?

What are the exact stages?
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they throw something on the stoop, and see if the cat licks it up...here kitty...
After long term testing on innocent, cuddly animals, close to the ones in Pooh's corner, they then dredge the sewers of london, searching for expected candidates for their noble, albeit, gruesome experiments.
here you come; couch louse, no job, cheeto junky, beside no money..the question is; how much would i have to pay you to swallow this? answer; give or take a few $100 bucks.
they make a show of checking your physical health,..ha ha..like anyone next to sound mind and body would volunteer to take something that would--but that's it, isnt' it..we dont know what it will do to you yet, do we..?
after you sign some papers of some sort, usually some blurb more or less next of kin blah blah blah...then they give you a big donut to large it...and a nice warm cup of coffee to wash down that really dry donut .......
you wake up surrounded by a room, not more than a cell..pure white walls, floor and ceiling. there is bright, almost glaring light everywhere, but you don't see the source..there is a steady hum, and a sense that you're moving, but you next realize that's the cofffee....
A former playboy bunny in a nurse's outfit comes in the room, smiling... on a silver platter she's carrying, you notice three syringes, three vials of juice, and a pleated paper cup with four little white pills...
she walks over to you, speaking..all right, her lips are moving, but you can't make out what she's saying...her mouth, so soft, so moist, so red, her orifice moving with such rythym...if you didn't know better, you'd think you were looking right between her.....
and the table she put the silver platter on is a small button on the floor...she puts the toe of her white government grant leather stillettoes on the button and pushes down slightly...and suddenly , a whole new world opens up for you...
Sometimes their supplements for getting rid of certains pains or problems resembling Morphine

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