美国国家公共电台 NPR Federal Prosecutor Takes On New Case As DOJ Point Person For Opioid Crisis

 

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President Trump¹'s administration has named a federal prosecutor² to oversee³ the fight against opioids. NPR's Ryan Lucas spoke⁴ with the new so-called opioid coordinator⁵.

RYAN LUCAS, BYLINE⁶: Mary Daly cut her teeth as a prosecutor working drug cases in Brooklyn. She then moved to Virginia, where she rose to become chief of the narcotics⁷ unit, handling cases involving gangs and international drug traffickers. Now she's the Justice Department's opioid coordinator, in short, its point person on the opioid crisis that is killing⁸, on average, 115 Americans every day.

MARY DALY: It's a lot different than being in the field. But one of the reasons I took the job was because I felt like it was an opportunity to help with this problem on a larger scale than I was as a prosecutor.

LUCAS: The scale of the opioid addiction⁹ problem is immense. It has become so widespread that the administration has begun calling it the crisis next door. Daly doesn't know anybody personally who's died from an opioid overdose, but she says that doesn't mean she hasn't seen the epidemic¹⁰'s toll¹¹.

DALY: I've been a drug prosecutor for 13 years, and I have to tell you I have never seen anything like this.

LUCAS: Over her career, Daly has helped prosecute¹² drug cases of all stripes - from marijuana to heroin¹³ and everything in between. But she says when the powerful synthetic¹⁴ opioid fentanyl began showing up a few years ago, it was a game changer.

DALY: Fentanyl is very scary because it's being laced in heroin. But not only heroin - it's now showing up in cocaine¹⁵. It's now being pressed into counterfeit¹⁶ pills.

LUCAS: And those fentanyl-laced drugs often prove deadly for unsuspecting recreational drug users. Last month, President Trump unveiled his plan for tackling the crisis. His proposal did include expanded access for treatment and recovery services. But in a speech in New Hampshire, Trump emphasized a get-tough law enforcement approach. That fueled concerns in some quarters that the administration wants to return to the heavy-handed drug war tactics of years past. Here's Tym Rourke, a treatment advocate.

TYM ROURKE: Good drug policy is about a balance between reducing supply and reducing demand. And a lot of the language and rhetoric¹⁷ that comes out does feel a little too heavy on the law enforcement side. And that's the part that is most concerning.

LUCAS: Daly says she understands the need for treatment and recovery. But she adds...

DALY: I think we should not underplay in the importance of aggressive enforcement when it comes to this epidemic.

LUCAS: It's Daly's job to act as a hub for the Justice Department's various efforts. She oversees¹⁸ prosecutors¹⁹ assigned to focus on health care fraud in opioid hotspots. She worked with federal authorities who are targeting the flow of heroin and fentanyl into the country and going after online vendors²⁰. And she has a hand in Justice Department efforts to support state and local governments engaged in litigation with drug companies. In her new job, Daly works out of an office on the fourth floor of the Justice Department in Washington. And it marks a return of sorts for her. She used to visit the building as a kid when her father, William Barr, served as President George H.W. Bush's attorney general.

DALY: I was young when he was attorney general, and I have great memories of coming to the Department of Justice.

LUCAS: Now she shows up every day at the department, and she has a weighty task - trying to reduce the number of Americans dying in one of the worst drug crises in the nation's history. Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.

1 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

2 prosecutor   

n.起诉人；检察官，公诉人

参考例句：

• The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
• The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。

3 oversee   

vt.监督，管理

参考例句：

• Soldiers oversee the food handouts.士兵们看管着救济食品。
• Use a surveyor or architect to oversee and inspect the different stages of the work.请一位房产检视员或建筑师来监督并检查不同阶段的工作。

4 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

5 coordinator   

n.协调人

参考例句：

• The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下，负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。
• How am I supposed to find the client-relations coordinator? 我怎么才能找到客户关系协调员的办公室？

6 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

7 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》

8 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。

9 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。

10 epidemic   

n.流行病；盛行；adj.流行性的，流传极广的

参考例句：

• That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
• The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。

11 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

12 prosecute   

vt.告发；进行；vi.告发，起诉，作检察官

参考例句：

• I am trying my best to prosecute my duties.我正在尽力履行我的职责。
• Is there enough evidence to prosecute?有没有起诉的足够证据？

13 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。

14 synthetic   

adj.合成的，人工的；综合的；n.人工制品

参考例句：

• We felt the salesman's synthetic friendliness.我们感觉到那位销售员的虚情假意。
• It's a synthetic diamond.这是人造钻石。

15 cocaine   

n.可卡因，古柯碱（用作局部麻醉剂）

参考例句：

• That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
• Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。

16 counterfeit   

vt.伪造，仿造；adj.伪造的，假冒的

参考例句：

• It is a crime to counterfeit money.伪造货币是犯罪行为。
• The painting looked old but was a recent counterfeit.这幅画看上去年代久远，实际是最近的一幅赝品。

17 rhetoric   

n.修辞学，浮夸之言语

参考例句：

• Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
• Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。

18 oversees   

v.监督，监视( oversee的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• She oversees both the research and the manufacturing departments. 她既监督研究部门又监督生产部门。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Department of Education oversees the federal programs dealing with education. 教育部监管处理教育的联邦程序。 来自互联网

19 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

20 vendors   

n.摊贩( vendor的名词复数 )；小贩；（房屋等的）卖主；卖方

参考例句：

• The vendors were gazundered at the last minute. 卖主在最后一刻被要求降低房价。
• At the same time, interface standards also benefIt'software vendors. 同时，界面标准也有利于软件开发商。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓