CNN News: 美国严查芬太尼

Getting started this Monday, it’s considered one of the most dangerous drugs in the world. It factors in heavily to the heroin epidemic we’ve reported on in the U.S. But it’s also blamed for deaths in Europe, Africa, and Australia.

今日头条新闻，这种药被认为是世界上最危险的药品之一。我们之前曾经报道过，这种药在美国对海洛因流行影响很大。但是，这种药也导致欧洲、亚洲和澳大利亚很多人死亡。

Fentanyl is a manmade painkiller. The United Nations recently put restrictions on some of the chemicals used to make it. It says fentanyl is the strongest painkiller in existence for medical use, but then it’s also highly addictive and especially dangerous when abused because it’s so powerful, many times stronger than even heroin itself.

芬太尼是一种人造的止痛药。联合国最近限制使用一些化学物品生产这种止痛药。联合国表示，芬太尼是目前医用的药效最强的止痛药，但是由于药效非常强，比海洛因的效力还要强上数倍，如果滥用会导致上瘾或者引发危险。

Fentanyl used to be found only in pharmacies. Now, it’s showing up in counterfeit pills, much of what’s being sold on the black market contains fentanyl. It’s much more potent than prescription medications and it’s killing people who take it.

芬太尼这种药只在药店销售。现在，黑市上出售的一些假冒药品都含有芬太尼。这些假药比处方药的药效要强，会给服用的人带来生命危险。

One challenge for U.S. officials who are trying to stop its spread, the actual machines used to make the pills. They’re arriving on American shores in a record numbers and they’re contributing to overdoses in every corner of the country.

现在试图阻止这种药传播的美国官员面临的难题是，用来制造这些药的机器。现在，这些机器以超高数量抵达美国，并且使美国各地这种药物服用过量。

It’s happening all over the country, in New Mexico, in Florida, in California. People are dying from counterfeit pills made with a dangerous synthetic drug called fentanyl, a drug that’s 25 to 50 times stronger than heroin, up to 100 times more potent than morphine.

新墨西哥、佛罗里达、加州等美国各地都在上演这样的一幕。很多人由于服用还有芬太尼的假药而致命。芬太尼是一种危险的合成药品，其药效比海洛因要高出25到50倍，而比普通的吗啡高出100倍。

People have died from ingesting what they think is a legitimate painkiller and it’s a counterfeit pill that contains fentanyl.

很多人由于摄取他们任何的合法止痛药而丧命。但是这种止痛药是假冒产品，内含芬太尼。