万花筒2008-03-18:毒品，网上直销

Prescription¹ drug abuse has skyrocketed, and experts point to "rogue²" online pharmacies³. CNN's Deborah Feyerick reports.

Ryan Haight was 18 years old when he bought two powerful drugs, Vicodin and Morphine. He never saw a doctor or even a pharmacist. His mother says it happened in secret online. She was the one who found Ryan dead of an overdose.  

"I remember that moment, thinking, oh, my god. oh, my god. why did he take these? How did he get these? " 

Ryan, an athlete and honor student from Southern California, got the drugs illegally through the Internet from a seller in Texas. It's like somebody entered your house, but you don't know they are there.  

One million, four hundred and ten thousand buy Oxycontin without a prescription. Joseph Califano, an expert on addiction⁴ and drug abuse has watched the number of advertisers for rogue online pharmacies skyrocket.  

They don't care who you are, they just want you to buy Oxycontin without a prescription.  

The pharmacies or cyber doctors know little or nothing about their customers' medical history, yet still put millions of pills into the hands of people with no prescriptions⁵.  

You can get Oxycontin, you can get Vicodin, you can get Ritalin, you can get Adderall, you can get Xanax, you can get Valium, very easily. It's like a candy. The Internet has become a candy store for 12 to 18 year-old kids.  

Experts say it's hard to put a figure on the actual number of teens buying drugs online. But with an estimated 6 million Americans overall abusing prescription medications, the drug enforcement agency has stepped up efforts to shut down more than 100 of these rogue pharmacies, a daunting⁶ task.  

They operate in cyber space, they operate with anonymity⁷, and it takes enormous amount of time to identify these, these pharmacies to find out the individuals that are operating the pharmacies, what country they happen to be operating in, how they are receiving their payment.  

And because they operate in places like India, China, Mexico Canada, even when they are found, it's easy for them to shut down and reappear under a new name, making it almost impossible for parents, like Ryan's mum to protect their children.  

The drug dealer⁸ came into our house, it's a total invasion into our home. And that's what is so frightening.  

Deborah Feyerick, CNN New York  

WORDS IN THE NEWS     

1. Vicodin

Vicodin is a trademarked brand of narcotic⁹ analgesics¹¹ (painkillers) containing hydrocodone and paracetamol (acetaminophen). It is usually found in tablet form with either the names "Vicodin", "Vicodin ES", or "Vicodin HP" imprinted¹² on one side.

2. Morphine : n-uncount

Morphine is a drug used to relieve pain.

3. OxyContin : 复方羟氢可待因

Oxycodone is an opioid analgesic¹⁰ medication synthesized from thebaine. It was developed in 1916 in Germany and introduced to the pharmaceutical¹³ market as Eukodal (also spelled Eucodal) and Dinarkon. Its chemical name is derived¹⁴ from codeine - the chemical structures are very similar, differing only in that the hydroxyl group of codeine has been oxidized to a carbonyl group (as in ketones), hence the "-one" suffix¹⁵, the 7,8-dihydro-feature (codeine has a double-bond between those two carbons), and the hydroxyl group at carbon 14 (codeine has just a hydrogen in its place), hence "oxy"codone.

4. rogue : adj

A rogue element is someone or something that behaves differently from others of its kind, often causing damage.

1 prescription   

n.处方，开药；指示，规定

参考例句：

• The physician made a prescription against sea- sickness for him.医生给他开了个治晕船的药方。
• The drug is available on prescription only.这种药只能凭处方购买。

2 rogue   

n.流氓；v.游手好闲

参考例句：

• The little rogue had his grandpa's glasses on.这淘气鬼带上了他祖父的眼镜。
• They defined him as a rogue.他们确定他为骗子。

3 pharmacies   

药店

参考例句：

• Still, 32 percent of the pharmacies filled the prescriptions. 但仍然有32%的药剂师配发了这两张药方。 来自互联网
• Chinese herbal pharmacies, and traditional massage therapists in the Vancouver telephone book. 中药店，和传统的按摩师在温哥华的电话簿里。 来自互联网

4 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。

5 prescriptions   

药( prescription的名词复数 )； 处方； 开处方； 计划

参考例句：

• The hospital of traditional Chinese medicine installed a computer to fill prescriptions. 中医医院装上了电子计算机来抓药。
• Her main job was filling the doctor's prescriptions. 她的主要工作就是给大夫开的药方配药。

6 daunting   

adj.使人畏缩的

参考例句：

• They were faced with the daunting task of restoring the house.他们面临着修复房子的艰巨任务。
• Starting a new job can be a daunting prospect.开始一项新工作有时会让人望而却步。

7 anonymity   

n.the condition of being anonymous

参考例句：

• Names of people in the book were changed to preserve anonymity. 为了姓名保密，书中的人用的都是化名。
• Our company promises to preserve the anonymity of all its clients. 我们公司承诺不公开客户的姓名。

8 dealer   

n.商人，贩子

参考例句：

• The dealer spent hours bargaining for the painting.那个商人为购买那幅画花了几个小时讨价还价。
• The dealer reduced the price for cash down.这家商店对付现金的人减价优惠。

9 narcotic   

n.麻醉药，镇静剂；adj.麻醉的，催眠的

参考例句：

• Opium is classed under the head of narcotic.鸦片是归入麻醉剂一类的东西。
• No medical worker is allowed to prescribe any narcotic drug for herself.医务人员不得为自己开处方使用麻醉药品。

10 analgesic   

n.镇痛剂；adj.止痛的

参考例句：

• The hospital advised an analgesic for chest and shoulder pains.医院建议用止痛药治疗胸部和肩部疼痛。
• Aspirin is a mild analgesic.阿司匹林是药性平和的止痛药。

11 analgesics   

n.止痛剂，镇痛剂( analgesic的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Management of lumbar strain includes analgesics and rest during the acute phase. 在急性期，腰部劳损的处理包括用止痛剂及休息，在床垫下面放置硬板。 来自互联网
• I've taken a lot of analgesics. But they are not so effective. 我吃了不少镇痛药。促是效果不怎么好。 来自互联网

12 imprinted   

v.盖印（imprint的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• The terrible scenes were indelibly imprinted on his mind. 那些恐怖场面深深地铭刻在他的心中。
• The scene was imprinted on my mind. 那个场面铭刻在我的心中。 来自《简明英汉词典》

13 pharmaceutical   

adj.药学的，药物的；药用的，药剂师的

参考例句：

• She has donated money to establish a pharmaceutical laboratory.她捐款成立了一个药剂实验室。
• We are engaged in a legal tussle with a large pharmaceutical company.我们正同一家大制药公司闹法律纠纷。

14 derived   

vi.起源；由来；衍生；导出v.得到( derive的过去式和过去分词 )；（从…中）得到获得；源于；（从…中）提取

参考例句：

• Many English words are derived from Latin and Greek. 英语很多词源出于拉丁文和希腊文。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He derived his enthusiasm for literature from his father. 他对文学的爱好是受他父亲的影响。 来自《简明英汉词典》

15 suffix   

n.后缀；vt.添后缀

参考例句：

• We add the suffix "ly" to make the adjective "quick" into the adverb " quickly ".我们在形容词“ quick”后加“ly” 构成副词“quickly”。
• It described the meaning of suffix array and also how to built it.它描述的含义，后缀数组以及如何建立它。