时代周刊 吸毒日记(1)

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"THE FACT THAT HE’S STILL ALIVE MEANS THAT THERE’S HOPE," SAYS KRISTINA BARBOZA from her living room in East Wareham, Mass.,

“事实上，他要是还活着，就意味着还有希望，” 马萨诸塞州东韦勒姆的克里斯蒂娜·巴尔博扎（Kleys KRISTINA BARBOZA）坐在她家客厅里说到，

50 miles and a world away from where her 31-year-old son Billy sleeps beneath a Boston overpass¹.

她家距离她31岁的儿子比利在波士顿天桥下离世的地方只有50英里，但如今两人已经是阴阳相隔了。

In Huntington, W.Va., firefighter Larry Kishbaugh—haunted by the countless² overdose scenes he has rushed to—has been diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder³.

在华盛顿州的亨廷顿，消防员拉里·基什博——饱受被他抓住的无数吸毒场面困扰 - 被诊断出患有创伤后应激障碍(PTSD)。

Inside a holding cell at the Kenton County, Kentucky, detention⁴ center where drug users are left to detox,

在肯塔基州肯顿县看守所的一间让瘾君子戒毒的拘留室里，

29-year-old mother Kayla Rauck wonders if she’ll ever see her children again.

29岁的母亲凯拉·洛克想知道她是否还能再见到自己的孩子。

It is hard to fathom⁵, and bitterly ironic⁶: the depth of the suffering caused by drugs whose ostensible⁷ purpose is to alleviate⁸ pain.

让人很难理解而且无比讽刺的是：表面上是为了减轻痛苦的毒品实际上给病人造成了莫大的伤害。

Statistics offer a partial view of the wreckage⁹.

从统计数据中，我们也可以对其有所了解。

In 2016 alone, nearly 64,000 Americans died from drug overdoses—roughly as many as were lost in the entire Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined.

仅2016年一年，就有将近6.4万名美国人死于药物过量 - 越南战争，伊拉克战争和阿富汗战争加起来的死亡人数也不过如此。

The U.S. is the world’s richest country, and yet its life expectancy¹⁰ declined in both 2015 and 2016.

美国是世界上最富有的国家，但2015，2016两年美国的人均寿命均有所下降。

More than 122 people die every day from syringes of heroin¹¹, gelcaps of fentanyl, an excess of oxycodone.

每天都有超过122人死于海洛因注射，服用芬太尼胶囊或者过量使用羟考酮。

Far more come close, but are revived by naloxone, a lifesaving antidote¹² that has become nearly as critical to a cop’s job as handcuffs.

还有更多的人挣扎在死亡的边缘，只不过被用纳洛酮救回来了，纳洛酮是一种能够救命的解毒剂，对警察执法来说，这种药品已经变得和手铐一样重要了。

But numbers aren’t neighbors, and it is far too easy to become numb¹³ to their scale.

不过，数字不是邻居，我们很容易对这些数字的规模变得麻木。

We are in the midst of a national emergency that affects every state, every income group and virtually every age.

我们已经陷入了一个影响每个州，每个收入群体和几乎每个年龄段的人的国家危机之中。

While the burden has fallen disproportionately on the least-educated Americans,

尽管文化程度最低的美国人的压力存在不成比例的下降现象，

tens of millions of us are no more than one degree of separation from someone struggling with addiction¹⁴.

但我们中间的无数人和那些在毒瘾中挣扎的人的差距不过毫厘之间。

As Walter Bender, a deputy sheriff in Montgomery County, Ohio, put it, "It reaches every part of society: blue collar, white collar, it reaches everybody."

正如俄亥俄州蒙哥马利县的副警长瓦尔特·本德所说：“毒品已经渗入了社会各个角落：无论你是蓝领，还是白领，每个人都可能受到影响。”

1 overpass   

n.天桥，立交桥

参考例句：

• I walked through an overpass over the road.我步行穿过那条公路上面的立交桥。
• We should take the overpass when crossing the road.我们过马路应走天桥。

2 countless   

adj.无数的，多得不计其数的

参考例句：

• In the war countless innocent people lost their lives.在这场战争中无数无辜的人丧失了性命。
• I've told you countless times.我已经告诉你无数遍了。

3 disorder   

n.紊乱，混乱；骚动，骚乱；疾病，失调

参考例句：

• When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后，他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
• It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。

4 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

5 fathom   

v.领悟，彻底了解

参考例句：

• I really couldn't fathom what he was talking about.我真搞不懂他在说些什么。
• What these people hoped to achieve is hard to fathom.这些人希望实现些什么目标难以揣测。

6 ironic   

adj.讽刺的，有讽刺意味的，出乎意料的

参考例句：

• That is a summary and ironic end.那是一个具有概括性和讽刺意味的结局。
• People used to call me Mr Popularity at high school,but they were being ironic.人们中学时常把我称作“万人迷先生”，但他们是在挖苦我。

7 ostensible   

adj.(指理由)表面的，假装的

参考例句：

• The ostensible reason wasn't the real reason.表面上的理由并不是真正的理由。
• He resigned secretaryship on the ostensible ground of health.他借口身体不好，辞去书记的职务。

8 alleviate   

v.减轻，缓和，缓解(痛苦等)

参考例句：

• The doctor gave her an injection to alleviate the pain.医生给她注射以减轻疼痛。
• Nothing could alleviate his distress.什么都不能减轻他的痛苦。

9 wreckage   

n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏

参考例句：

• They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
• New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。

10 expectancy   

n.期望，预期，（根据概率统计求得）预期数额

参考例句：

• Japanese people have a very high life expectancy.日本人的平均寿命非常长。
• The atomosphere of tense expectancy sobered everyone.这种期望的紧张气氛使每个人变得严肃起来。

11 heroin   

n.海洛因

参考例句：

• Customs have made their biggest ever seizure of heroin.海关查获了有史以来最大的一批海洛因。
• Heroin has been smuggled out by sea.海洛因已从海上偷运出境。

12 antidote   

n.解毒药，解毒剂

参考例句：

• There is no known antidote for this poison.这种毒药没有解药。
• Chinese physicians used it as an antidote for snake poison.中医师用它来解蛇毒。

13 numb   

adj.麻木的，失去感觉的；v.使麻木

参考例句：

• His fingers were numb with cold.他的手冻得发麻。
• Numb with cold,we urged the weary horses forward.我们冻得发僵，催着疲惫的马继续往前走。

14 addiction   

n.上瘾入迷，嗜好

参考例句：

• He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
• Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。