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Instructors² from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency are in Vietnam this month training Vietnamese officers in conducting drug raids. The United States wants Vietnam's cooperation in fighting international drug traffickers. But experts say police work is not the most important part of fighting drug abuse in Vietnam. Matt Steinglass reports from Hanoi.

A column of Vietnamese police wearing black face-guards infiltrate³ a drug den⁴, coached by an American DEA agent.

"Someone needs to be on that side of the door," said Agent Boix.

The agents kicked in the door and enter the room.

"Protect your back. Turn around now," continued Boix.

The guns are firing paint pellets, and the drug den is a plywood mock-up in the parking lot of a firefighting academy. The DEA agents are showing their Vietnamese counterparts the American way to carry out a drug raid.

"The drug problem is an international problem, and it's killing⁵ children, and it's killing families, and it's all the same no matter where you go," said Joe Boix, the DEA's head firearms and tactical instructor¹ for the state of Arizona.

Lieutenant⁶ Colonel Vu Tien Chien, a border guard in Lai Chau province, says the training was different from those he was used to.

Chien says the American training focuses more deeply on exactly how to enter a building and arrest a subject.

Heroin⁷ addiction⁸ has risen rapidly in Vietnam since the country opened to foreign trade in the late 1980s. The government says there are 169,000 addicts⁹ in Vietnam, but independent experts say the real number is much higher.

The use of Amphetamines and the drug ecstasy¹⁰ is also rising.

But none of the drugs originate in Vietnam. Heroin enters over the border from Laos, and most probably comes from Burma, the world's number two heroin producer after Afghanistan.

According to Jeff Wanner¹¹, the DEA officer at the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, many of these narcotics¹² shipments are on their way to other countries, like China and Australia. And Wanner says the United States' main goal in Vietnam is not cutting down the country's domestic drug abuse problem.

"Our main thrust is to go after the international organizations. We'll help them out. That's what this training is for, to help them deal with their internal problem. But we want to go after the bigger organizations, the large ones, international in scope," said Wanner.

Training exercises like this one may help increase cooperation between American and Vietnamese police, but they will not do much to lower Vietnam's rate of drug abuse.

Jason Eligh, a harm reduction specialist at the U.N. Office of Drug Control's Hanoi office says harsher police action can, in fact, worsen the drug abuse problem.

"If police enforcement is extremely strong, extremely rigid¹³, concerned about stopping all things related to drugs, imprisoning¹⁴ people, imposing¹⁵ strict fines, that's going to cause heroin users to flee from authority. In Vietnam, drug use is classified as a social evil and as a crime. Where there's strong enforcement, you're seeing drug users not want to engage in services," he said.
　
Defendants¹⁶ sentenced to death or life in prison after court convicted them of heroin-trading in Hanoi
(File photo - 07 Feb 2007)

Harsh enforcement may drive drug users to avoid support groups, needle exchanges or HIV testing. That can lead to higher rates of HIV. Vietnam fights drug abuse by putting users in mandatory¹⁷ rehabilitation¹⁸ camps for two years. In Ho Chi Minh City, the term can be as long as five years.

But little is done to integrate former drug users into society after they are released from the camps, and Eligh says most quickly go back to using drugs.

"There are a number of better ways of dealing¹⁹ with drug dependence²⁰, and this is not one of them. Certainly methadone is by far the best approach to heroin dependence that we have in the world today," said Eligh.

Vietnam recently launched its first methadone treatment programs, and there are signs the country's approach to drug treatment may be shifting.

Meanwhile, police have been seizing more drug shipments, and 13 drug dealers²¹ have been sentenced to death this year.

That could be driving up prices. Since January, the street price of a dose of heroin has risen from $3 to $6.

But if Vietnam is going to attack its domestic drug use problem, it will have to do as much to help drug users as it does to catch drug dealers.

 

1 instructor   

n.指导者，教员，教练

参考例句：

• The college jumped him from instructor to full professor.大学突然把他从讲师提升为正教授。
• The skiing instructor was a tall,sunburnt man.滑雪教练是一个高高个子晒得黑黑的男子。

2 instructors   

指导者，教师( instructor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The instructors were slacking on the job. 教员们对工作松松垮垮。
• He was invited to sit on the rostrum as a representative of extramural instructors. 他以校外辅导员身份，被邀请到主席台上。

3 infiltrate   

vt./vi.渗入，透过；浸润

参考例句：

• The teacher tried to infiltrate her ideas into the children's minds.老师设法把她的思想渗透到孩子们的心中。
• It can infiltrate as much as 100 kilometers into enemy territory at night.可以在夜间深入敌领土100千米。

4 den   

n.兽穴；秘密地方；安静的小房间，私室

参考例句：

• There is a big fox den on the back hill.后山有一个很大的狐狸窝。
• The only way to catch tiger cubs is to go into tiger's den.不入虎穴焉得虎子。

5 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

6 lieutenant   

n.陆军中尉，海军上尉；代理官员，副职官员

参考例句：

• He was promoted to be a lieutenant in the army.他被提升为陆军中尉。
• He prevailed on the lieutenant to send in a short note.他说动那个副官，递上了一张简短的便条进去。

7 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。

8 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。

9 addicts   

有…瘾的人( addict的名词复数 )； 入迷的人

参考例句：

• a unit for rehabilitating drug addicts 帮助吸毒者恢复正常生活的机构
• There is counseling to help Internet addicts?even online. 有咨询机构帮助网络沉迷者。 来自超越目标英语 第3册

10 ecstasy   

n.狂喜，心醉神怡，入迷

参考例句：

• He listened to the music with ecstasy.他听音乐听得入了神。
• Speechless with ecstasy,the little boys gazed at the toys.小孩注视着那些玩具，高兴得说不出话来。

11 wanner   

adj.苍白的( wan的最高级 )；无血色的；病态的；暗淡的

参考例句：

• Mu ofof a fruit is help times Wanner AOL establish structure of a first-rate. 蒂姆将帮助时代华纳为AOL确立一个最佳的结构。 来自互联网

12 narcotics   

n.麻醉药( narcotic的名词复数 )；毒品；毒

参考例句：

• The use of narcotics by teenagers is a problem in many countries. 青少年服用麻醉药在许多国家中都是一个问题。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Police shook down the club, looking for narcotics. 警方彻底搜查了这个俱乐部，寻找麻醉品。 来自《简明英汉词典》

13 rigid   

adj.严格的，死板的；刚硬的，僵硬的

参考例句：

• She became as rigid as adamant.她变得如顽石般的固执。
• The examination was so rigid that nearly all aspirants were ruled out.考试很严，几乎所有的考生都被淘汰了。

14 imprisoning   

v.下狱，监禁( imprison的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Mr Afwerki may disgust his compatriots by torturing and imprisoning his critics. Afwerki总统拷打和监禁他的反对者已经使的国人生厌。 来自互联网
• Proud and intelligent, it takes great pleasure and imprisoning enemies through psionic exploitation. 它骄傲并狡猾，非常喜欢囚禁敌人并剥夺他们的智力。 来自互联网

15 imposing   

adj.使人难忘的，壮丽的，堂皇的，雄伟的

参考例句：

• The fortress is an imposing building.这座城堡是一座宏伟的建筑。
• He has lost his imposing appearance.他已失去堂堂仪表。

16 defendants   

被告( defendant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The courts heard that the six defendants had been coerced into making a confession. 法官审判时发现6位被告人曾被迫承认罪行。
• As in courts, the defendants are represented by legal counsel. 与法院相同，被告有辩护律师作为代表。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件

17 mandatory   

adj.命令的；强制的；义务的；n.受托者

参考例句：

• It's mandatory to pay taxes.缴税是义务性的。
• There is no mandatory paid annual leave in the U.S.美国没有强制带薪年假。

18 rehabilitation   

n.康复，悔过自新，修复，复兴，复职，复位

参考例句：

• He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
• No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。

19 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

20 dependence   

n.依靠，依赖；信任，信赖；隶属

参考例句：

• Doctors keep trying to break her dependence of the drug.医生们尽力使她戒除毒瘾。
• He was freed from financial dependence on his parents.他在经济上摆脱了对父母的依赖。

21 dealers   

n.商人( dealer的名词复数 )；贩毒者；毒品贩子；发牌者

参考例句：

• There was fast bidding between private collectors and dealers. 私人收藏家和交易商急速竞相喊价。
• The police were corrupt and were operating in collusion with the drug dealers. 警察腐败，与那伙毒品贩子内外勾结。