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Narrator: This lack of self-control not only adds to the severity of the addiction, but also leads to other violent or compulsive behavior.
旁白：由于缺乏自控能力不仅加重了成瘾性的严重程度，而且还导致了其他的暴力或冲动行为。
Maggie Lavalle found herself unable to control an impulse to steal.
玛吉·拉瓦发现自己无法控制偷窃的冲动。
Maggie Lavalle: I embezzled $32,000.
玛吉·拉瓦：我挪用了32000美元。
I closed down a gas station that I worked at.
我关闭了一家我工作的加油站。
Whatever I needed I had it 'cause I took the money.
因为我拿了钱，所以就能得到我想要的任何东西。
Narrator: Dr. London has discovered that the brain damage can often, but not always, repair itself.
旁白：伦敦博士发现大脑损伤往往，但不是一直，会自我修复。
While the search for a medical cure continues, the only real option available to addicts is behavioral therapy, like drug counseling.
虽然还在继续摸索医疗治愈，瘾君子的唯一真正选择就是行为治疗，例如滥用毒品咨询。
Maggie Lavalle's story isn't unusual.
玛吉·拉瓦的故事并不罕见。
In some Californian cities, nearly a third of all persons arrested test positive for methamphetamine.
在加州的某些城市，近三分之一的被捕者其甲基苯丙胺检测阳性。
At the Santa Barbara County Jail, Chuck McClain is determined to combat the problem.
在圣巴巴拉郡监狱，查克·麦克莱恩决心来解决这个问题。
Chuck: We started 12 years ago.
查克：12年前我们就开始了。
The chief of the jail at that time decided that, you know, we need to get something going here because, you know, they run a 75% recidivism rate.
监狱负责人在那时下定决心，嗯，我们需要对此做点什么，因为，嗯，他们的再犯率达75%。
Narrator: McClain has 150 inmates in behavioural therapy for drug abuse. 65% of them are meth users.
旁白：有150名犯人接受麦克莱恩的滥用毒品行为疗法。其中65%是冰毒吸食者。
They receive a combination of reading materials, group therapy sessions and one-on-one counselling.
他们接受联合治疗，读书，小组治疗和一对一辅导。
Like many inmates at Santa Barbara, Dave Wagman is a repeat offender.
与圣巴巴拉的许多犯人一样，戴夫·韦格曼是惯犯。
Dave: The way I use is, they're called runs or binges I would inject myself up to 5 or 6 times a day if the stuff was reasonably good.
戴夫：我的方式是，他们所谓的奔跑或狂欢，我每天注射五六次，如果东西是相当不错的。
Probably the last five years I cannot stop doing it until I get arrested.
差不多在过去五年中，在被逮捕前，我一直这样做。
Narrator: For many, Chuck's program works.
旁白：对许多人来说，查克的计划生效了。
34% of the inmates are caught re-offending far lower than the jail's 75% average.
34%的犯人因再犯被抓，远低于监狱的平均水平。
Still it means over a third of his participants will return to jail.
尽管如此，这意味着超过三分之一的参与者会返回监狱。
Chuck will see some of these faces again and again.
查克会一次次地看到这些面孔。
Chuck: You have children? - Olga: Seven. - Chuck: You have seven kids? - Olga: Yes. - Chuck: How old are you? -Olga: I'm 34. -Chuck: 34.
查克：你有孩子吗？－奥尔加：七个。－查克：你有七个孩子？－奥尔加：是的。－查克：你多大了？－奥尔加：我34了。－查克：34。
Narrator: Keeping a prisoner in Santa Barbara Jail costs $26,000 a year. It's a heavy burden for the taxpayers.
旁白：圣巴巴拉监狱的一名囚犯每年花费26000美元。是纳税人的一大沉重负担。
Nationally, the cost of methamphetamine-related crime is estimated at around $4 billion.
在全国范围内，与甲基苯丙胺有关的犯罪成本预计为40亿美元左右。
Chuck: When they're out there using, they're not working, they're not contributing to society.
查克：他们从这里出去，他们不工作，他们没有为社会作出贡献。
They're taking away from society.
他们正在远离社会。
It takes a lot of money to house 'em, it takes a lot of money for the police force to arrest them and so on and so forth. And that's a huge cost.
容留他们需要一大笔钱，需要花费大把金钱来动用警力逮捕他们，等等等等。这是一个巨大的成本。
And that's what this is all about, is reducing the cost to the community at large of addiction.
说一千道一万就是，降低毒瘾的社会成本。
