毒品泛濫一直是美國社會難以根治的痼疾，由此導(dǎo)致的死亡人數(shù)觸目驚心。據(jù)美國有線電視新聞網(wǎng)（CNN）報道，美國吸毒致死問題絕大多數(shù)與以芬太尼為首的阿片類藥物有關(guān)。過去兩年，每年超10萬美國人因濫用芬太尼死亡。如今，隨著更多毒品迅速滲透至各地社區(qū)，藥物濫用現(xiàn)象已經(jīng)廣泛入侵美國校園。

阿片類濫用藥物現(xiàn)象入侵校園

據(jù)美國有線電視新聞網(wǎng)3月8日報道，今年，美國已經(jīng)發(fā)生多起致死/非致死高中生濫用藥物事件：

A 15-year-old girl was found dead of a suspected overdose by her mother in January.
今年1月，馬里蘭州蒙哥馬利縣一名15歲的女孩被母親發(fā)現(xiàn)疑似死于用藥過量。

The early February death of a student in Arlington, Virginia, after he overdosed in the school bathroom has school districts throughout the region on guard.
2月初，弗吉尼亞州阿靈頓市一名學(xué)生在學(xué)校浴室內(nèi)因服藥過量死亡。該事件為該地區(qū)學(xué)區(qū)敲響警鐘。

In neighboring Fairfax County, Virginia, there were 30 nonfatal opioid overdoses in the first month of 2023.
在鄰近的弗吉尼亞州費爾法克斯縣，1月發(fā)生30起非致命的阿片類藥物過量。

A school official told local lawmakers that Narcan has been administered twice so far in this school year.
一名學(xué)校官員告訴當(dāng)?shù)亓⒎ㄕ撸緦W(xué)年迄今為止已經(jīng)發(fā)生兩起施用納洛酮的情況（納洛酮一般用于拮抗阿片類藥物過量導(dǎo)致的不良反應(yīng)）。

In February, CNN reported on a couple arrested in Carrollton, Texas, after 10 juveniles overdosed and three died. Authorities said they traced a deluge of pills known as “M30s” from middle and high schools in the area to one house. M30s are counterfeit synthetic opioids pressed to look like prescription oxycodone.
據(jù)CNN今年2月報道，在 10名青少年濫用藥物其中3人致死后，警察在得克薩斯州卡羅爾頓逮捕了一對夫婦。警方表示，他們通過對該地區(qū)中學(xué)和高中調(diào)查，追蹤到一所存放了大量“M30”藥片的房子。M30是偽造的合成阿片類藥物，被壓制成處方藥羥考酮的樣子。

In Hays County, Texas, during the summer and first week of the school year, four students died of suspected fentanyl poisoning. Another student, a 14-year-old, died in January.
在得克薩斯州海斯縣，在夏季學(xué)年的第一周，四名學(xué)生因疑似芬太尼中毒死亡。另一名14歲的學(xué)生于1月去世。

Lake Travis Fire Rescue Chief Robert Abbott told CNN there were five nonfatal overdoses in his community outside Austin, Texas, in a little more than 24 hours between Sunday and Monday.
據(jù)CNN報道，特拉維斯湖消防救援負(fù)責(zé)人羅伯特·阿博特稱，僅僅在3月5日至6日的一天多時間里，得州奧斯汀市郊外的社區(qū)就發(fā)生了五起非致命性用藥過量事件。

“I can tell you this opioid crisis is present in every demographic that we represent,” Abbott said. “It’s in the affluent areas; it’s in the poorest and the middle-class areas. And it’s often with people who have no experience using narcotics.”
阿博特說：“我可以說，阿片類藥物濫用危機存在于每個群體中。這類事件發(fā)生在富人社區(qū)，也發(fā)生在貧民窟、中產(chǎn)社區(qū)。而且經(jīng)常發(fā)生在沒有吸毒經(jīng)歷的人身上?！?/p>

部分地區(qū)藥物濫用人數(shù)大幅增加

It’s hard to believe data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention actually showed a slight decrease in the number of overdose deaths last year. The number is still painfully and tragically high: In the 12-month period ending September 2022, the US government predicted 106,840 drug overdose deaths.
盡管美國疾病控制與預(yù)防中心的數(shù)據(jù)顯示，去年因用藥過量死亡的人數(shù)略有下降，但這一數(shù)字仍然高得驚人：官方估計，2021年9月至2022年9月期間，有106840人因用藥過量死亡。

The epidemic is presenting itself in different ways across the country. A CDC dashboard shows a substantial increase in a number of nonfatal overdoses in states stretching from Georgia up to Pennsylvania, along with a band of spikes in Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky and also Washington state.
藥物濫用現(xiàn)象在全美各地流行。美疾控中心的一份報告顯示，從佐治亞州到賓夕法尼亞州，非致命用藥過量的人數(shù)大幅增加，密西西比州、田納西州、肯塔基州以及華盛頓州也出現(xiàn)了一系列激增。

來源：CNN
編輯：董靜