VOA标准英语2012--More Afghan Opium May Mean More Pakistani Addicts
时间：2018-12-16 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(十二月)
More Afghan Opium 1 May Mean More Pakistani Addicts 3
In Pakistan, the number of people addicted 4 to heroin 5 and other opiates, like these in Karachi, are on the rise.
Mohammad Qurban has been an addict 2 for 20 years. This is his second time in rehab. There are plenty of drugs here, he said, from marijuana to heroin. He said addicts come from all sectors 6 of society.
"There is no distinction. A rich man parks his car behind and then comes to the footpath 7 asking for a needle. They pay for the drugs and have it injected," he said. "The rich get their drugs from the poor. The person who gets the drug, sells the drug and uses the drug are the boys of the footpath."
The trail of drugs and addiction 8 passes through the Pakistani cities of Peshawar in the northwest and Quetta in the southwest.
Estimates of drug users in Pakistan vary from 600,000 to nine million. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the actual number is likely somewhere in between, with a significant increase in the supply and use of opiates, including heroin, in the past five years.
Dr. Saleem Azam, who heads a rehabilitation 9 center in Karachi, said drugs are easily available.
"These are available like peanuts; you are sitting in your office, you are sitting in your bedroom, you are sitting in your living room, you can call a person and he will drop the drug at your doorstep," said Azam.
The number of heroin and opiate users like Qurban are expected to increase when international combat forces leave Afghanistan in 2014 and opium production and smuggling 10 are less controlled.
Fateh Muhammad Burfat, chairman of Karachi University's criminology department, says more heroin and opiates mean more crime.
"This drug use is also related with the arms. Illegal arms and drugs go together. In Pakistan, for example, heroin and Kalashnikovs [AK-47 rifles] usually go together," Burfat said.
Ultimately, the extent of Pakistan's drug problem will be determined 11 by what happens next door in Afghanistan. The United Nations reported earlier this month that the amount of Afghan farmland devoted 12 to opium poppies has increased by nearly 20 percent this year.
- That man gave her a dose of opium.那男人给了她一剂鸦片。
- Opium is classed under the head of narcotic.鸦片是归入麻醉剂一类的东西。
- He became gambling addict,and lost all his possessions.他习染上了赌博，最终输掉了全部家产。
- He assisted a drug addict to escape from drug but failed firstly.一开始他帮助一个吸毒者戒毒但失败了。
- a unit for rehabilitating drug addicts 帮助吸毒者恢复正常生活的机构
- There is counseling to help Internet addicts?even online. 有咨询机构帮助网络沉迷者。 来自超越目标英语 第3册
- He was addicted to heroin at the age of 17.他17岁的时候对海洛因上了瘾。
- She's become addicted to love stories.她迷上了爱情小说。
- 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。
- Berlin was divided into four sectors after the war. 战后柏林分成了4 个区。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Industry and agriculture are the two important sectors of the national economy. 工业和农业是国民经济的两个重要部门。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Owners who allow their dogs to foul the footpath will be fined.主人若放任狗弄脏人行道将受处罚。
- They rambled on the footpath in the woods.他俩漫步在林间蹊径上。
- 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。
- He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
- No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。
- Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
- The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。
- I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
- He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。