CNN News: 美国滥用处方药现象有多严重?

Prescription drug and heroin abuse is exploding. Last week, we reported on the Food and Drug Administration`s black box warning, its strongest possible warning that will appear on commonly prescribed opioid painkillers.

滥用海洛因以及处方药事件正在激增。上周，我们报道了食品和药品管理局发布的黑框警告，很有可能这个警告也会用于鸦片类止痛药上。

Now, the government is making it easier for doctors to prescribe anti- addiction drugs to help patients get over their dependents on opioids. The White House is also promising more than $100 million in funding to help treat addicts nationwide. Critics say these steps are long overdue, that the problem has already gotten out of hand.

现在政府鼓励医生开一些不易上瘾的药物，以帮助病患杜绝依赖鸦片类药物。白宫也承诺资助1亿美元在全国范围内帮助治愈药物上瘾的病患。批评人士称，这些方法早就过时了，因为问题已经难以控制了。

President Obama participated in a panel on the subject yesterday. It was moderated by CNN`s Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

昨日，奥巴马总统参加了一个主题小组讨论。讨论由CNN桑基·古普塔 医生主持。

A number that really stuck with me when I first reporting on this was 28,000. It was the number of people who died in 2014 of accidental opioid overdoses. About half of those came, were involved with prescription overdoses. It`s a pretty staggering number.

我第一次进行相关报道时，这个数字是2.8万，这是2014年由于鸦片类药物使用过量死亡的人口总数。这个数字让我震惊。而其中一半的人是由于处方药使用过量而死亡。这是一个令人惊人的数字。

There are so many different problems in the world that -- where solutions really aren`t that obvious and this is a complicated problem. No question about it. There are people with chronic who were caught in the middle. There are people with addiction who were caught in the middle. But I also think it`s a very fixable problem.

世界上存在着许多不同的问题——但是解决的方法并不明确，这就成为一个复杂的难题。毫无疑问，这其中包含一些患有慢性疾病患者，也包含一些瘾君子。但是我认为这是一个可以解决的问题。

You know, my job is to promote the safety, the health, the prosperity of the American people, and that encompasses a whole range of things. It means that we`re tracking down ISIL leaders, and it means that we`re responding to natural disasters, and it means that we`re trying to promote a strong economy.

我的工作是保证美国人们的安全、健康和繁荣，而这其中又包含了很多事情。例如，追踪伊斯兰领导人、应对自然灾害、推动经济强劲增长。

And when you look at the staggering statistics, in terms of lives lost, productivity impacted, and costs to communities, but most importantly cost to families, from this epidemic of opioids abuse, it has to be something that is right up there at the top of our radar screen.

由于鸦片类药物滥用导致的流行病，产生了这一惊人的数据，这其中包括生命损失、生产力折损、社区成本，但最重要的是家庭成本。在我们的雷达荧光屏上必须显示一些正确的事物。

You mentioned the number 28,000, it`s important to recognize that today, we are seeing more people killed because of opioid overdose than traffic accidents. Think about that. A lot of people tragically died of car accidents, and we spend a lot of time and a lot of resources to reduce those fatalities.

刚刚提到的2.8万，今天我们意识到这个数字具有重要的意义，我们知道，与交通事故相比，由于滥用鸦片类药物导致的人口数量更大。仔细想想，很多人不幸死于交通事故，而我们花费大量的时间和资源来减少死亡人数。

And the good news is, is that we`ve actually been very successful. Traffic fatalities are much lower today than they were when I was a kid, because we systematically looked at the data and we looked at the science and we developed strategies, and public education that allowed us to be safer drivers.

好消息是，实际上，我们已经非常成功。由于，我们系统地看待这些数据和科学方法，并制定了相关策略，同时公共教育让我们安全驾驶，现在的交通死亡率远低于我幼年时期的死亡率。

The problem is here, we`ve got the trajectory going in the opposite direction.

但现在问题是，在鸦片类药物方面，我们正在背道而驰。