《大西洋月刊》那些对毒品说“行”的城市 [C1]
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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:05 | You're listening to The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs. | 你在听《城市说对毒品》 |
| 0:09 | Policies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce | 为吸毒者提供清洁针头和吸毒场所的政策旨在减少 |
| 0:14 | harm. | 伤害。 |
| 0:15 | They created a zombie apocalypse. | 他们创造了僵尸启示录。 |
| 0:18 | Written by Michael Powell, published in the September issue of The Atlantic. | 由迈克尔·鲍威尔撰写,发表于"大西洋"9月期. |
| 0:23 | 由乔迪·阿维尔根(Jody Avergan)朗读. | |
| 0:25 | Produced by Hark Audio, a podcast curation app. | 由Hark Audio制作,一个播客解说应用. |
| 0:28 | You can find this and other narrated Atlantic articles along with curated podcast moments | 你可以找到这篇 和其他叙事的大西洋文章 与曲解的播客瞬间 |
| 0:33 | on the Hark Audio app. | 在哈克音频应用程序。 |
| 0:36 | Late last year, I walked roughly a mile from downtown Seattle to the working-class neighborhood | 去年末,我从西雅图市中心 走了大约一英里到工人阶级社区 |
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| 序号 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | You're listening to The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs. | 你在听《城市说对毒品》 |
| 2 | Policies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce | 为吸毒者提供清洁针头和吸毒场所的政策旨在减少 |
| 3 | harm. | 伤害。 |
| 4 | They created a zombie apocalypse. | 他们创造了僵尸启示录。 |
| 5 | Written by Michael Powell, published in the September issue of The Atlantic. | 由迈克尔·鲍威尔撰写,发表于"大西洋"9月期. |
| 6 | 由乔迪·阿维尔根(Jody Avergan)朗读. | |
| 7 | Produced by Hark Audio, a podcast curation app. | 由Hark Audio制作,一个播客解说应用. |
| 8 | You can find this and other narrated Atlantic articles along with curated podcast moments | 你可以找到这篇 和其他叙事的大西洋文章 与曲解的播客瞬间 |
| 9 | on the Hark Audio app. | 在哈克音频应用程序。 |
| 10 | Late last year, I walked roughly a mile from downtown Seattle to the working-class neighborhood | 去年末,我从西雅图市中心 走了大约一英里到工人阶级社区 |
| 11 | of Little Saigon and came upon a montage of human despair. | "小西贡人" "人类的绝望" |
| 12 | An open-air drug market stretched along the intersection of 12th and Jackson. | 12街和杰克逊街交叉口沿线的露天毒品市场拉长. |
| 13 | About 250 people, many smoking fentanyl or bent over in the thrall of the drug, tilting | 大约250人,许多吸烟芬塔尼尔 或弯曲在毒品中,倾斜 |
| 14 | as if mid-fall. | 犹如中降. |
| 15 | Three women lay passed out on the sidewalk, their chests slowly rising and falling, while | 三个女人昏倒在人行道上 他们的胸部慢慢地升降 |
| 16 | fellow addicts stepped over them and dealers made sales. | 瘾君子都踩到他们身上了 毒贩也卖了 |
| 17 | Young boys, schoolbags on their backs, stood on a far corner and watched. | 年轻的男孩们,背着学生包,站在一个遥远的角落,看着他们。 |
| 18 | I walked around the block to the Hoa Mai playground, named for a Vietnamese flower that signifies | 我绕着街区走到Hoa Mai游乐场 以越南花朵的名字命名 |
| 19 | rebirth. | 复出世间. |
| 20 | City workers had installed gates to keep drug users away, but at 4pm on a Wednesday, I counted | 城市工人已经安装了大门 让吸毒者远离, 但是在星期三下午4点,我数到了 |
| 21 | 27 people smoking drugs and nodding off. | 27人吸烟和点头。 |
| 22 | No children were in sight. | 没有看到儿童。 |
| 23 | Half a mile to the south, in the Beacon Hill neighborhood, I visited a 10-acre park named | 南边半英里,在灯塔山附近 我参观了一个10英亩的公园 |
| 24 | after the Filipino nationalist Jose Rizal. | 在菲律宾民族主义者Jose Rizal之后 |
| 25 | It has a playground and the remnants of an apple orchard, and at night you can peer downtown | 它有一个游乐场和一个苹果果园的残迹,晚上你可以在市中心对等 |
| 26 | and see the city lights. | 并见城灯. |
| 27 | As I arrived, a drug user squatted next to a child's slide and relieved himself. | 当我到达的时候,一个吸毒者 蹲在一个孩子的滑行旁边,并解脱了自己。 |
| 28 | Others had set up tents and colonized the park pavilion, where they heated fentanyl | 其他人建立了帐篷,把公园的展厅殖民化,在那里加热芬太尼。 |
| 29 | on tinfoil and inhaled the fumes with glass pipes. | 用玻璃管吸入烟雾 |
| 30 | A few went old school and injected it. | 有几人去旧学,注射之. |
| 31 | Across the street, I spoke with Angelina Montsegur as she waited at a bus stop. | 街对面,我和安杰莉娜·蒙瑟古尔在公交站等她时谈过 |
| 32 | When she was a kid, she told me, she and her father ate candied apples in the park and | 她小时候告诉我 她和父亲在公园吃过罐头苹果 |
| 33 | watched 4th of July fireworks. | 看7月4日的烟花。 |
| 34 | A few weeks earlier, she and her 6-year-old daughter had gotten on the bus and seen a | 几周前,她和她6岁的女儿上了公交车 |
| 35 | man smoking fentanyl on board. | 在船上抽烟的 |
| 36 | Are you serious? | 你是认真的吗? |
| 37 | She shouted at him. | 她对他大喊大叫 |
| 38 | My daughter has asthma. | 我的女儿有哮喘。 |
| 39 | I asked if she had called the police and she smiled at my naivete. | 我问她有没有报警 她对我天真的孩子微笑 |
| 40 | All the city does is send out teams who hand out aluminum foil and fentanyl pipes. | 整个城市所做的就是派出小队 分发铝铝铝和芬太尼管。 |
| 41 | Seattle is one of the wealthiest and best-educated cities in the world. | 西雅图是世界上最富有,教育程度最高的城市之一. |
| 42 | It can afford to try various strategies to address its drug epidemic and high rate of | 它有能力尝试各种战略,解决其毒品流行和高比率问题。 |
| 43 | fatal overdoses. | 致命过量。 |
| 44 | Yet many of the city's leaders, apparently supported by voters, view enforcing bans on | 然而,该市的许多领导人,显然得到选民的支持,都认为,必须禁止 |
| 45 | the open sale and use of narcotics and forcing addicts off the streets and into treatment | 公开销售和使用麻醉品,强迫吸毒成瘾者流落街头并接受治疗; |
| 46 | as akin to an act of state repression. | 类似于国家镇压行动 |
| 47 | Seattle, like a striking number of other liberal American cities, has embraced a radical form | 西雅图像许多其他自由主义的美国城市一样, 接受了激进的形式 |
| 48 | of quote-unquote harm reduction, which is more a philosophy about treating addiction | 更像是治疗成瘾的哲学 |
| 49 | than a scientific approach to it. | 而不是科学方法 |
| 50 | Harm reduction's adherents hold that police and outreach workers should quote, meet the | 减少伤害的信徒们认为,警察和外联工作者应该引用、满足 |
| 51 | addicted where they are, end quote, which is to say, without judgment. | 有瘾的地方,最后引文,也就是说,没有判断力。 |
| 52 | The New York State Department of Health, a bastion of harm reduction, describes it as | 纽约州卫生部是一个减少伤害的堡垒,它描述为 |
| 53 | a quote-unquote social movement committed to quote, building leadership among drug users. | 在吸毒者中建立领导地位。 |
| 54 | In these places, de facto and sometimes legal restrictions on narcotics use have been greatly loosened. | 在这些地方,对使用麻醉品的实际和有时的法律限制大大放宽。 |
| 55 | Cities fund teams of workers to hand out drug paraphernalia, and in some rare cases, they've | 城市资助工人团队 分发药物参数, 在一些罕见的情况下,他们 |
| 56 | created dedicated spaces for addicts to shoot up. | 为吸毒成瘾者创造了专门的射击空间。 |
| 57 | Meanwhile, police departments struggling with staffing shortages and budget cuts have stopped | 同时,面临人员短缺和预算削减的警察部门已经停止 |
| 58 | devoting resources to sweeping users and dealers off the streets or out of parks and playgrounds. | 投入资源,将用户和经销商从街上或公园和游乐场中清除出去。 |
| 59 | Harm reduction was born 50 years ago of an admirable humanitarian impulse. | 减少伤害是50年前在令人钦佩的人道主义冲动下产生的。 |
| 60 | Its most basic ideas, such as providing clean needles to users, deservedly draw broad support. | 其最基本的想法,例如向使用者提供干净的针头,理应得到广泛的支持。 |
| 61 | There's a debate to be had, though, about whether this approach has saved lives or added | 不过,对于这个方法是否拯救了生命还是增加了 |
| 62 | the carnage of America's terrible drug epidemic. | 美国可怕的毒品流行的屠杀 |
| 63 | From 2014 to 2024, roughly 862,000 Americans died of drug overdoses, more than twice the | 从2014年到2024年,大约862,000人 美国人死于吸毒过量 超过2倍 |
| 64 | toll of the previous decade. | 过去十年的死亡人数。 |
| 65 | Several studies have shown that addicts who shoot up at official injection sites are far | 有几项研究表明,在官方注射点开枪的吸毒成瘾者距离很远。 |
| 66 | less likely to die of overdoses than those who use drugs in, say, alleyways and parks. | 比起那些在巷道和公园里吸毒的人 死于过量药物的可能性更小 |
| 67 | Over the past decade, however, overdose death rates climbed sharply in nearly every city | 然而,在过去十年中,几乎每个城市的过量死亡率都急剧上升。 |
| 68 | where the strongest harm reduction policies were in place, and even with declines in the | 实施最强有力的减少损害政策的地方,即使有 |
| 69 | past two years, the rates remain well above those of previous decades. | 在过去的两年里,这一比率远远高于过去几十年。 |
| 70 | From 2016 to 2025, 7,089 people died of overdoses in King County, which includes Seattle, seven | 从2016年到2025年,金县有7 089人因过量而死亡,其中包括西雅图,7人 |
| 71 | times the number of homicides in that period. | 是那个时期凶杀案的两倍 |
| 72 | Harm reduction isn't just a problem for addicts. | 减少伤害不仅仅是瘾君子的问题 |
| 73 | In many cities, the autonomy of drug users has taken precedence over nearly everything | 在许多城市,吸毒者的自主性几乎高于一切 |
| 74 | and everyone else, not least working-class families like Montsegours, who must live | 还有其他人,尤其是像蒙塞古斯这样的工人阶级家庭 他们必须活下来 |
| 75 | alongside addicts and accept dystopian decay. | 和瘾君子并肩接受阴道衰变 |
| 76 | Keith Humphries, a Stanford Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences professor and a former | Keith Humphries,斯坦福精神病学和行为科学教授,曾任 |
| 77 | advisor to President Obama, supports needle exchanges and opposes widespread jailing of | 奥巴马总统的顾问,支持针头交换,反对广泛监禁 |
| 78 | users. | 用户。 |
| 79 | But when he argues that drug policy must take into account the impact on communities, | 但当他提出毒品政策必须考虑到对社区的影响时, |
| 80 | he told me, some critics dismiss him as a reactionary. | 他告诉我,一些批评者 开除他作为一个反动分子。 |
| 81 | Their arguments, he said, quote, sound a lot more like gun rights and vaccine refusal. | 他说,他们的论点 听起来更像是枪权 和疫苗拒绝。 |
| 82 | It's no longer about the whole population. | 不再涉及整个人口. |
| 83 | It's about the subset who use drugs, end quote. | 是关于使用药物的子集,结尾引用. |
| 84 | In recent years, officials in cities such as San Francisco and Philadelphia have moved | 近年来,旧金山和费城等城市的官员纷纷搬迁 |
| 85 | to rein in the excesses of harm reduction policies. | 控制减少伤害政策的过度行为。 |
| 86 | Nevertheless, these policies retain a powerful hold on public health and political leaders | 然而,这些政策仍然对公共卫生和政治领导人有着强大的影响力。 |
| 87 | in blue parts of the country. | 在蓝色的地区。 |
| 88 | I witnessed this in visits to Seattle and Burlington, Vermont, two of America's more | 我在西雅图 和伯灵顿,佛蒙特州 的参观中亲眼目睹了这一点, 美国的两个更多 |
| 89 | progressive cities. | 进步城市。 |
| 90 | Both are afflicted by high overdose rates, overwhelmed police forces, parks and public | 两者都受到高过量率、不堪重负的警察部队、公园和公众的影响。 |
| 91 | squares, often captive to drug use, and the theft and disorder that accompany all of that. | 经常被吸食毒品 以及随之而来的盗窃和混乱 |
| 92 | Yet many of their elected officials continue to insist, despite everything, that harm | 然而,许多当选官员仍然坚持说,尽管有种种伤害。 |
| 93 | reduction is the most effective and moral solution to addiction. | 减少毒瘾是治疗毒瘾的最有效和道德办法。 |
| 94 | Harm reduction took root in the 1970s in the Netherlands, where addicts formed unions, | 1970年代,减少伤害在荷兰扎根。 |
| 95 | the junkie bond in Rotterdam, for instance, that distributed needles and pushed back against | 比如鹿特丹的毒瘾债券 用来分发针头 并击退 |
| 96 | official insistence on abstinence from hard drugs. | 官方坚持对硬药禁欲. |
| 97 | Not long afterward, this philosophy gained support in some American and Canadian cities. | 不久后,这个哲学在部分美国和加拿大城市获得了支持. |
| 98 | I first encountered it when I reported on a heroin shooting gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn, | 我第一次遇到它时,我报道了 在布鲁克林的布希威克的一个海洛因射击画廊, |
| 99 | in 1991. | 于1991年毕业. |
| 100 | The work of harm reduction advocates at the time undoubtedly saved lives. | 当时减少伤害的倡导者的工作无疑挽救了生命。 |
| 101 | HIV infection rates for drug users in Bushwick had reached 50% or higher, at a time when | Bushwick的吸毒者的艾滋病毒感染率已达到50%或更高,当时, |
| 102 | that diagnosis was close to a death sentence. | 诊断结果接近死刑 |
| 103 | Activists risked arrest to distribute clean needles and bleach to disinfect used ones. | 活动分子冒着被捕的危险,分发干净的针头和漂白剂,对用过的针头进行消毒。 |
| 104 | But some began to argue for a more radical step. | 但有些人开始主张采取更激进的步骤. |
| 105 | There would be less death, they said, if addicts could inject drugs without fear of arrest. | 他们说,如果吸毒成瘾者可以不担心被捕而注射毒品,死亡将减少。 |
| 106 | That momentous step came about not in New York but in Vancouver, a city whose political | 这一重大步骤不是在纽约,而是在温哥华。 |
| 107 | culture was left-wing and libertarian, celebrating the rights of the individual. | 文化是左翼和自由主义的,庆祝个人的权利。 |
| 108 | In 2003, as overdose deaths surged, the Liberal Party of Canada carved out an exemption to | 2003年,随着过量死亡的激增,加拿大自由党制定了一项豁免措施。 |
| 109 | federal drug laws and established North America's first sanctioned injection site in Vancouver's | 在温哥华建立了北美第一个批准注射点 |
| 110 | downtown East Side, a troubled dockside neighborhood. | 东区市区,一个麻烦的码头街区. |
| 111 | Addicts could bring their heroin and cocaine to a 13-seat center where staff dispensed | 吸毒成瘾者可以把海洛因和可卡因带到一个13个座位的中心,在那里工作人员分发 |
| 112 | swabs and sterile water to cook the drugs and offered advice on vein maintenance. | 抽水和无菌水来煮药,并提出静脉维持的建议。 |
| 113 | Clinic staff were trained to reverse overdoses, and if that failed, to call a hospital for help. | 诊所工作人员接受了扭转过量药效的培训,如果失败,请到医院求助。 |
| 114 | Initial opinion surveys found broad public support for the center, and it shone like | 初步民意调查发现,公众广泛支持该中心,它像 |
| 115 | a beacon for some activists, academics, and journalists in the United States and other | 美国及其他地区的一些活动家、学者和记者的灯塔 |
| 116 | parts of Canada. | 加拿大部分地区。 |
| 117 | A stream of studies and articles celebrated Vancouver's legal shooting gallery, which | 一系列研究和文章 庆祝温哥华的合法射击画廊, |
| 118 | resulted in fewer cases of AIDS and other infections, and fewer deaths. | 艾滋病和其他感染病例减少,死亡人数减少。 |
| 119 | Public health officials coined a non-judgmental nomenclature that persists to this day. | 公共卫生官员发明了一个非判断性术语,该名称一直沿用至今. |
| 120 | The word addict was stigmatizing, better to refer to people who used drugs. | 瘾君子一词是污名化的,更可以指吸毒的人. |
| 121 | People used rather than abused narcotics. | 人们使用而不是滥用麻醉品。 |
| 122 | They did not fail a drug test, they tested positive. | 他们没有通过药物测试,他们检测为阳性。 |
| 123 | Vancouver's model spawned dozens of injection sites across Canada. | 温哥华的模型在加拿大各地培育了数十个注射点. |
| 124 | Health officials in British Columbia went still further, championing a program known | 不列颠哥伦比亚的卫生官员更进一步,支持一个已知的方案 |
| 125 | as, quote-unquote, safer supply. | 如,引文未引用,更安全的供应。 |
| 126 | Former government officials started companies that provided addicts with free opioid alternatives, | 前政府官员创办了向吸毒者提供免费类阿片替代品的公司, |
| 127 | such as pharmaceutical-grade hydromorphone pills, considerably more powerful than heroin. | 药物级水龙头药丸 比海洛因强得多 |
| 128 | Drug users obtained these pills from pharmacies and specially designed vending machines. | 吸毒者从药店和专门设计的自动售货机获得这些药丸。 |
| 129 | By 2020, the rights of addicts in the province had edged toward fantastical. | 到2020年,该省吸毒成瘾者的权利已接近奇观。 |
| 130 | In 2023, the province decriminalized small amounts of certain hard drugs. | 2023年,该省将少量某些硬性毒品非刑罪化. |
| 131 | One hospital instructed nurses not to confiscate fentanyl or meth from patients and not to | 一家医院指示护士不要没收病人的芬太尼或冰毒,也不要没收。 |
| 132 | restrict suspected dealers from visiting patients. | 限制可疑经销商探访病人。 |
| 133 | When British Columbia banned illicit drug use within 50 feet of a public playground | 当不列颠哥伦比亚省在公共操场50英尺之内禁止非法使用毒品时 |
| 134 | or swimming pool, the provincial Supreme Court blocked the law, ruling that it could cause, | 或游泳池, 省最高法院屏蔽法律, 裁定它可能导致, |
| 135 | quote-unquote, irreparable harm to drug users. | 引用-引用,对吸毒者造成不可弥补的伤害. |
| 136 | Quote, harm reductionists had the force of a bulldozer. | 引文中,减少伤害主义者有推土机的力量. |
| 137 | Julian Summers, who studies addiction at Simon Fraser University, told me. | 在西蒙弗雷泽大学学习成瘾的朱利安·萨默斯告诉我. |
| 138 | Some addicts learned to gain the system by obtaining daily allotments of hydromorphone | 一些吸毒成瘾者学会通过每天获得氢吗啡酮分配来获得该系统 |
| 139 | pills. | 药丸 |
| 140 | 15 or more a day was typical, and then selling them to dealers in exchange for stronger | 一天15个或15个以上是典型的,然后卖给经销商以换取更强壮的 |
| 141 | fentanyl concoctions. | 芬太涅盘曲. |
| 142 | Dealers could then sell the original pills on the street. | 交易商可以在街上出售原药丸。 |
| 143 | An investigation by National Post reported a price drop of 70% or more for black market | National Post的调查显示,黑市价格下跌70%或以上 |
| 144 | pills in cities that had instituted safer supply. | 在已建立安全供应的城市里吃药。 |
| 145 | This, in turn, expanded the circle of the addicted and led to more overdoses. | 这反过来又扩大了瘾君子的圈子,导致更多的过量服用. |
| 146 | The consequences were predictable. | 后果是可预见的。 |
| 147 | Over the course of two decades, many thousands of drug users poured into the downtown Eastside | 20年来,成千上万的吸毒者 涌入东边的市区 |
| 148 | and other Canadian neighborhoods in search of narcotics and places to shoot up. | 和其他加拿大邻居 寻找毒品 和射击的地方。 |
| 149 | Overdoses spiked. | 药量过大 |
| 150 | In 2014, British Columbia recorded 369 overdose deaths. | 2014年,不列颠哥伦比亚省记录了369例过量死亡. |
| 151 | In 2023, the figure peaked at more than 2,500. | 2023年,这一数字达到顶峰,超过2500人. |
| 152 | Fatal overdoses last year increased to 1,826, as Canada moved to reverse decriminalization | 去年,由于加拿大开始扭转非刑罪化趋势,致命过量药物增加到1 826种。 |
| 153 | and tighten regulation of narcotics. | 并加紧管制麻醉品。 |
| 154 | But that still represents a nearly nine-fold increase over 15 years. | 但这仍然是15年来近9倍的增长。 |
| 155 | Advocates of harm reduction have long held that more addicts would die if officials closed | 减少伤害的倡导者长期以来一直认为,如果官员关闭,更多的吸毒成瘾者将会死亡。 |
| 156 | injection centers, but a recent study found that after an injection site in Alberta closed, | 注射中心,但最近的一项研究发现,艾伯塔省的一个注射点关闭后, |
| 157 | there was no increase in the number of overdose deaths and more addicts sought treatment. | 过量死亡的人数没有增加,更多的吸毒者寻求治疗。 |
| 158 | Advocates have also insisted that crime does not spike near injection centers, | 律师们还坚持 犯罪不会在注射中心附近蔓延 |
| 159 | but the data are more mixed than they admit. | 但数据比他们承认的多 |
| 160 | Not long ago, I walked through a park in Toronto to a fence with hundreds of purple ribbons | 不久前,我走过多伦多的公园 到一个有数百条紫丝带的围栏 |
| 161 | tied to it. | 绑紧它。 |
| 162 | Each represented a resident who had died of an overdose and I was unavoidably moved. | 每个都代表一名因过量而死亡的居民,我无可避免地被感动。 |
| 163 | Then, as I read a leaflet, I realized the memorial was the work of the Harm Reduction | 之后,当我读到传单时,我意识到纪念碑是减少伤害的工作 |
| 164 | Advocacy Collective, a, quote, liberation movement of people who use drugs, end quote, | 集体宣传,一个,引文, 解放运动 谁吸毒,结束引文, |
| 165 | along with public health professionals and academics who, quote, stand up for the rights | 与公共卫生专业人员和学者一起,引证: |
| 166 | of drug users, end quote. | 毒品使用者,最后引文。 |
| 167 | It's one of a number of similar groups in Canada, such as the Substance Youth Health Network, | 它是加拿大一些类似的群体之一,例如药物青年健康网, |
| 168 | which condemns, quote, anti-euphoria prohibitionist principles, end quote, | 谴责、引用、反对禁止食腐动物原则、最后引用、 |
| 169 | such as the, quote, idea that illicit drugs are inherently bad, end quote. | 例如,引文指出,非法毒品本质上是坏的,最后引文。 |
| 170 | British Columbia is starting to rethink its runaway experiment. | 不列颠哥伦比亚开始重新考虑其逃跑实验. |
| 171 | In 2025, the province began requiring addicts using the Safer Supply Program to consume | 2025年,该省开始要求吸毒成瘾者使用更安全的供应方案进行消费。 |
| 172 | their prescribed narcotics in front of pharmacists and earlier this year, the drug decriminalization | 他们的处方麻醉品 在药剂师面前 今年早些时候 毒品非刑罪化 |
| 173 | program expired. | 程序过期 。 |
| 174 | Provincial health authorities are now making attempts to encourage addicts to get treatment. | 省级卫生主管部门目前正在努力鼓励吸毒者接受治疗。 |
| 175 | The census of a political culture reluctantly shaking off a decades-long stupor. | 政治文化的普查 勉强动摇了几十年的混乱。 |
| 176 | In 2024, the premier of British Columbia appointed Daniel Vigo, a psychiatrist and | 2024年,不列颠哥伦比亚省首府任命丹尼尔·维戈为精神病医生, |
| 177 | public health researcher, as the province's chief scientific advisor on toxic drugs. | 公共卫生研究员,是该省有毒药品首席科学顾问。 |
| 178 | Vigo has spoken of the terrible toll that repeat overdoses take on addicts' brains | 维戈已经谈到过量吸毒给瘾君子大脑带来的可怕损失 |
| 179 | and has advocated for a new policy of mandating treatment for some addicts. | 并倡导一项新政策,要求对某些吸毒者进行治疗。 |
| 180 | Progressive activists and journalists tend to talk about forced treatment as a conservative-driven | 进步的活动家和记者往往说强迫对待是一种保守主义的驱使。 |
| 181 | return to a carceral state. | 回到一个卡塞尔州。 |
| 182 | But considerable data show that addicts who enter mandated treatment are as likely to | 但大量数据表明,接受法定治疗的吸毒成瘾者有可能 |
| 183 | avoid drug use and re-arrest as the relatively small number who seek treatment voluntarily. | 由于自愿寻求治疗的人数相对较少,因此避免吸毒和再次被捕。 |
| 184 | Vigo's words today would have amounted to heresy a few years ago, quote, | 维戈今天的话 几年前就相当于异端了 引用一下 |
| 185 | It's as if we forgot that the goal was to try and stop people from getting addicted, | 就好像我们忘记了 目标就是要阻止人们上瘾 |
| 186 | end quote, he told me. | 他告诉我了 |
| 187 | Adding later, quote, | 稍后,引用, |
| 188 | Harm reduction gets people in trouble when it stops being one part of a holistic strategy | 减少伤害会给人带来麻烦 当它不再是整体战略的一部分时 |
| 189 | and it becomes an ideological movement, end quote. | 并成为一个意识形态运动,最后引文。 |
| 190 | But even as Vancouver has begun the painful process of revising its harm reduction policies, | 但是,即使温哥华开始了修改其减少危害政策的痛苦进程, |
| 191 | the city still exerts a powerful hold on the imagination of liberal leaders in the United States. | 这座城市仍然对美国自由派领袖的想象力施加强大的控制. |
| 192 | In New York City, which established two injection sites in 2021, health officials and academics | 在2021年设立两个注射点的纽约市,卫生官员和学者 |
| 193 | point to the perceived success of Vancouver as inspiration. | 温哥华的成功是灵感 |
| 194 | Rhode Island, where an injection center opened in Providence in 2024, | 罗德岛,2024年在普罗维登斯开设了一个注射中心, |
| 195 | also holds up Vancouver as a model. | 温哥华也是模特儿 |
| 196 | The Washington state legislature appointed a working group that in 2025 | 华盛顿州立法机构于2025年任命了一个工作组。 |
| 197 | recommended establishing a safe supply of narcotics for addicts | 建议为吸毒成瘾者提供安全的麻醉品供应; |
| 198 | and officials repeatedly cited the Vancouver program. | 和官员多次引用温哥华计划。 |
| 199 | The shadow cast by Vancouver extends to Burlington. | 温哥华投下的影子延伸至伯灵顿. |
| 200 | Last year, the city council approved the establishment of an injection center. | 去年市委批准设立注射中心. |
| 201 | The group that the city chose to run it noted that Vancouver, | 该城市选择经营的团体指出,温哥华, |
| 202 | quote, remains the source of much of the evidence, end quote, | 引用,仍然是大部分证据的来源, 结尾引用, |
| 203 | showing the benefits of such spaces for drug users and the community. | 为吸毒者和社区展示这些空间的好处。 |
| 204 | Burlington sits on Lake Champlain, the Adirondack Mountains rising on the far shore. | 伯灵顿坐落于尚普兰湖,远岸上兴起的阿迪隆达克山脉. |
| 205 | It's a beautiful city, but its drug scene is not covert, | 这是一个美丽的城市, 但它的毒品场景不是隐蔽的, |
| 206 | spreading over downtown and several other neighborhoods. | 分布于市区和其他几个街区. |
| 207 | Users pitch tents in churchyards and parks and along the waterfront. | 用户在教堂和公园以及沿水边投放帐篷。 |
| 208 | When I sat in City Hall Park last September, I counted at least 70 users and dealers, | 去年九月我坐在市政厅公园时 我数了至少70个用户和交易商 |
| 209 | many looking hyperkinetic in the way of the strung out. | 许多人看起来是超动能 的方式被扼杀。 |
| 210 | I walked through an alley next to City Hall where a few weeks earlier, | 我走过市政厅旁边的一条小巷 几个星期前, |
| 211 | a group of young people had allegedly beaten a man to death in an argument over drugs. | 据称,一群年轻人在为毒品争吵时将一名男子殴打致死。 |
| 212 | Vermont has strict laws against possession of heroin and cocaine, | 佛蒙特州有严格的法律禁止拥有海洛因和可卡因, |
| 213 | but users in Burlington are rarely arrested or prosecuted for possessing small amounts. | 但伯灵顿的用户很少因为拥有少量资金而被逮捕或起诉. |
| 214 | Although it's hard to isolate the effects of these policies, in 2024, | 虽然很难孤立这些政策的影响,但在2024年, |
| 215 | the city of almost 45,000 recorded 585 drug overdoses, 28 of which were fatal. | 将近45,000个城市记录了585次药物过量,其中28次是致命的。 |
| 216 | That is more than twice the rate of fatal overdoses per capita in New York City the same year. | 这是同年纽约市人均致命过量剂量的两倍多。 |
| 217 | Beth Sitler walked me around her working class neighborhood in the Old North End. | 贝丝·西特勒带我到她老北端的工人阶级社区 |
| 218 | Burlington's progressive political culture and tradition of caring for the poor are well established. | 伯灵顿进步的政治文化和关心穷人的传统早已确立. |
| 219 | Bernie Sanders served four terms as mayor in the 1980s. | 伯尼·桑德斯在20世纪80年代担任四届市长. |
| 220 | Sitler, a liberal who runs a mental health center, said she has fished needles out of her flower boxes | 西特勒,一个开精神卫生中心的自由主义者 说她从花盒里捞了针 |
| 221 | and seen people overdosing in cars and cemeteries. | 并看见人们在汽车和墓地中过度劳作。 |
| 222 | She carries naloxone, a medication that can reverse an opioid overdose when she walks her dog. | 她携带着纳罗酮,一种药物,当她走狗时可以扭转类阿片过量. |
| 223 | One morning, she saw a young woman on the grass near her porch wearing underwear, a bra, and sandals. | 一天早晨,她看到一个年轻女子在她门廊附近的草地上穿着内衣,胸罩,和凉鞋. |
| 224 | There was this beautiful woman, absolutely beautiful, sitting there trying to find a | 有一个美丽的女人,绝对漂亮, 坐在那里试图找到一个 |
| 225 | vein and inject, end quote, Sitler recalled. | 静脉注射,最后引号,西特勒召回。 |
| 226 | I told her, sweetie, you gotta move along, end quote. | 我告诉她,亲爱的,你必须走开,最后引言。 |
| 227 | Many people in Burlington offer similar stories. | 伯灵顿的许多人提供类似的故事. |
| 228 | A block from City Hall Park, | 离市政厅公园的一个街区 |
| 229 | the King Street Center provides tutoring and recreation programs for families living in | 国王街中心为生活在 |
| 230 | poverty. | 贫困。 |
| 231 | Staff members arrive early to sweep up needles outside the building. | 工作人员提前抵达大楼外扫针。 |
| 232 | When drug dealers began playing dice out front last summer, Shabnam Nolan, the executive director, | 当毒贩去年夏天开始在前面玩骰子时 执行董事Shabnam Nolan |
| 233 | called the police, who eventually chased the dealers away. | 他们最终赶走了毒贩 |
| 234 | Quote, we tried to sound the alarm, and yet people are not taking us seriously | 引用一下,我们试图发出警报, 但人们并没有认真对待我们 |
| 235 | enough about what's happening, end quote, Nolan told me. | 说得够多了 诺兰跟我说了 |
| 236 | Why does a drug user's, quote, right to dignity violate children's right to come to our center | 为什么一个吸毒者的尊严权 侵犯了孩子们来我们中心的权利 |
| 237 | without seeing blood and needles, end quote. | 不见血与针,末引. |
| 238 | It's as if, she said of Burlington and its culture, | 她好像在说伯灵顿及其文化 |
| 239 | quote, we are frozen with fear that someone might see us as uncompassionate, end quote. | 引用,我们被冷冻 担心有人会 认为我们没有同情心,最后引用。 |
| 240 | The city's political class has compounded these problems. | 该市的政治阶层使这些问题更加复杂. |
| 241 | In 2020, activists launched a campaign to defund the police department, | 2020年,活动人士发起一场退款警察部门的运动, |
| 242 | although it was regarded as relatively progressive and community oriented. | 尽管它被认为相对进步和面向社区。 |
| 243 | The city council cut almost $1 million from the police budget. | 市议会从警察预算中削减了近100万美元. |
| 244 | Six years ago, Burlington had about 100 officers. | 六年前,伯灵顿有大约100名军官. |
| 245 | Now it has fewer than 70. | 现在它还不到70个。 |
| 246 | The current city council president, Ben Traverse, a liberal Democrat who has grown | 现任市议会主席 本·特拉弗斯 自由民主党人 他已经成长 |
| 247 | uncomfortable with Burlington's direction, told me that sometimes as few as five officers | 对伯灵顿的指示感到不适,告诉我,有时候只有五个警官 |
| 248 | are on duty citywide after midnight on the weekends. | 周末午夜后全市都在值班 |
| 249 | It used to be that if you wanted | 曾经是,如果你想 |
| 250 | to deal drugs, quote, you did not come to Burlington, end quote, Traverse said. | 毒品交易,引用,你没有来 伯灵顿,结尾引用,特拉弗斯说。 |
| 251 | But that has changed, quote, open air drug sales are a common occurrence here, end quote. | 但是,这已经改变了,引用, 开放的空气药物销售是这里常见的, 结尾引用。 |
| 252 | 州检察官Sarah George 包括Burlington在内的县检察官 | |
| 253 | is a progressive Democrat who once wrote that the American legal system, quote, | 是一个进步的民主党人 他曾经写道,美国的法律制度,引用, |
| 254 | was built on the oppression and caging of black, brown, and poor people, end quote. | 建立在黑人、棕人和穷人的压迫和捕食之上, |
| 255 | She told me that the combination of COVID, ever less affordable housing, | 她告诉我,COVID的组合, 越来越便宜的住房, |
| 256 | and a cascade of evictions fed a drug crisis that has devastated Vermont. | 和连锁驱逐 造成了毒品危机 摧毁佛蒙特州。 |
| 257 | But she doesn't blame addicts, who she said are, quote, unquote, rarely dangerous and are suffering, | 但她并不责怪瘾君子,她说, 引用,引用, 很少危险和痛苦, |
| 258 | quote, I'm very frustrated with this narrative that City Hall Park is at the end of the world, | 引用一下,我对这个故事感到非常沮丧 市政厅公园已经到了世界末日 |
| 259 | George added. | 乔治说。 |
| 260 | That park is still a very safe place to be, end quote. | 那个公园仍然是一个非常安全的地方,最后引文。 |
| 261 | I asked her how Burlington might balance drug users' sometimes dominant presence in the city's | 我问她,伯灵顿如何平衡 吸毒者有时在城市的主要存在 |
| 262 | parks and streets with the desire of residents to use and enjoy those same places. | 公园和街道居民希望使用和享受这些地方。 |
| 263 | The city, | 这个城市, |
| 264 | she replied, should start by opening its planned injection center so that addicts can use drugs | 她回答说,应该首先开放其计划中的注射中心,以便吸毒成瘾者能够使用毒品。 |
| 265 | The state legislature has allocated about $2 million that it obtained from a national | 州立法机构已经拨出了大约200万美元,这笔资金来自一名国民。 |
| 266 | opioid settlement to help fund the center, though potential neighbors have pushed back | 虽然潜在的邻居已经退缩了,但帮助资助中心的类阿片结算 |
| 267 | against the sites that have been floated so far. | 与迄今漂浮的遗址相对应。 |
| 268 | More broadly, George opposes pushing | 更广泛地说,乔治反对推 |
| 269 | addicts to the margins, quote, they cannot be disappeared, she said. | 瘾君子到边缘,引用, 他们不能消失,她说。 |
| 270 | They are part of our | 他们是我们的一部分 |
| 271 | community, end quote. | 社区,最后引文。 |
| 272 | In 2022, George announced a new policy. | 2022年,乔治宣布了新政策. |
| 273 | If police officers stopped cars with | 如果警察用 |
| 274 | broken taillights, tinted windows, or expired licenses and found a cache of narcotics, her | 尾灯断裂 窗户有色 执照过期 发现藏有毒品 |
| 275 | office would most likely decline to prosecute the cases on the grounds that racial discrimination | 办事处很可能以种族歧视为由拒绝起诉这些案件。 |
| 276 | could have motivated the traffic stops. | 可能是交通中断的原因 |
| 277 | She emphasized to me that police officers could, | 她对我强调,警官可以, |
| 278 | in any case, confiscate and destroy the drugs, but she questioned the need to go beyond that, | 无论如何,没收和销毁毒品, 但她质疑是否有必要超越这一点, |
| 279 | quote, is prosecution needed, she said, or have we done enough already, end quote. | 她说,需要起诉,还是我们已经做了足够的,最后引文。 |
| 280 | George has been re-elected twice and is running for a third term. | 乔治两次连任,并竞选第三任. |
| 281 | In April, I spoke with Burlington's mayor, Emma Mulvaney-Stenek, of the Vermont Progressive Party, | 4月,我和伯灵顿的市长 艾玛·穆尔瓦尼-施特内克谈过 |
| 282 | which has governed the city for much of the past four decades. | 在过去四十年里,它统治了整个城市 |
| 283 | She has seen firsthand the | 她亲眼看到 |
| 284 | effects of the drug epidemic. | 毒品流行的影响。 |
| 285 | When she lived in the Old North End after her child was a toddler, | 在她的孩子长大后 她住在北边老地方 |
| 286 | they awoke to drug dealers beating on their door. | 他们醒来后毒贩子打他们的门。 |
| 287 | She told me that she supports police | 她告诉我她支持警察 |
| 288 | and drug enforcement administration investigations that target dealers, | 和针对毒贩的毒品执法部门调查, |
| 289 | although she noted the quote unquote whack-a-mole nature of that work, | 虽然她注意到了那本书的无名小卒性质 |
| 290 | as new dealers replace those who are arrested. | 作为新交易商取代被捕者。 |
| 291 | She said that without more help from the county | 她说没有县里的帮助 |
| 292 | and state, the city lacks the funds to build larger shelters that could help keep addicts | 城市缺乏资金来建造更大型的庇护所 帮助保持瘾君子 |
| 293 | off the streets. | 远离街道。 |
| 294 | She is aware that Burlingtonians have grown impatient living with a drug abuse | 她知道Burlingtonians 已经变得不耐烦 生活药物滥用 |
| 295 | epidemic. | 流行病。 |
| 296 | Quote, we are fatigued with our compassion, she told me. | 引用一下 我们的同情心很疲惫 她告诉我 |
| 297 | All of the attention | 所有注意力 |
| 298 | on harm reduction and public health, I get that, end quote. | 关于减少伤害和公共卫生,我明白了,最后引文。 |
| 299 | But like George, Mulvaney-Stenek has | 但像乔治一样,穆尔瓦尼 -斯捷内克有 |
| 300 | not backed away from harm reduction policies that she sees as humane and essential. | 她认为减少伤害政策是人道和必要的。 |
| 301 | Last summer, | 去年夏天,我们... |
| 302 | she opposed the city council resolution calling for police officers to be stationed in City Hall | 她反对市议会要求警察驻守市政厅的决议 |
| 303 | Park to clear out users and dealers, arguing that the drug traffic would only go elsewhere | 说贩毒只会去别的地方 |
| 304 | and that there were not enough officers to enforce the policy. | 并且没有足够的官员来执行这项政策。 |
| 305 | She signed off on the resolution, | 她签了决议 |
| 306 | but she shares George's philosophical objections. | 但她同意乔治的哲学反对 |
| 307 | Quote, displacement and removal of people is not | 引文、流离失所和迁移不是 |
| 308 | the solution, end quote, the mayor said. | 市长说 解决方案 结尾部分 |
| 309 | Wouldn't an injection center, I asked her, draw more addicts | 不是注射中心,我问她,画更多瘾君子 |
| 310 | and dealers to Burlington? | 和毒贩到伯灵顿? |
| 311 | She acknowledged the possibility, but framed it as a necessary risk. | 她承认这种可能性,但认为这是必要的风险。 |
| 312 | She repeated the harm reduction maxim. | 她重复了减少伤害的格言。 |
| 313 | Quote, it helps people where they are at, end quote. | 引用,它帮助人们 在他们的位置,结尾引用。 |
| 314 | The city's problems, Mulvaney-Stenek insisted, were more image than reality. | 城市的问题,穆尔瓦尼-斯捷内克坚持,是比现实更多的形象. |
| 315 | Quote, people need | 引用,人们需要 |
| 316 | to ignore the clickbaity articles that distort the nature of Burlington, end quote. | 忽略扭曲Burlington性质的点击文章,结尾引用。 |
| 317 | Recently, Traverse | 最近,特劳弗斯 |
| 318 | and other Democrats on the city council have begun to challenge the mayor on harm reduction. | 而市议会的其他民主党人 已经开始挑战市长 减少伤害。 |
| 319 | Jennifer Morrison, 州公共安全专员, 也说话了。 | |
| 320 | She served | 她服务 |
| 321 | as Burlington's interim police chief for six months in 2020 before quitting, in part because | 在2020年担任伯灵顿临时警察局长6个月后辞职,部分原因是 |
| 322 | what she described as the city's quote unquote mismanagement and quote unquote social activism. | 她所描述的 城市的引文未引用管理不善 并引用未引用的社会活动。 |
| 323 | She and governor Phil Scott, a moderate Republican, have clashed with Mulvaney-Stenek. | 她和一位温和的共和党人州长菲尔·斯科特(Phil Scott)曾与穆尔瓦尼-斯捷内克发生冲突. |
| 324 | They have periodically, at the city's request, sent state troopers to Burlington to help local | 他们根据城市的要求,定期派州警到伯灵顿帮助当地 |
| 325 | police with drug enforcement and patrolling the central business district. | 警察负责缉毒和中央商务区巡逻 |
| 326 | Quote, I lived through | 引用,我活过 |
| 327 | the decisions that got us to the place that we are now, Morrison told me. | 莫里森告诉我的 把我们带到现在这个地方的决定 |
| 328 | We are exposing our | 我们正在揭露我们 |
| 329 | youth to terrible consequences by normalizing drug use and addiction, end quote. | 最后引文指出,通过使吸毒和吸毒成瘾正常化,青少年将面临可怕的后果。 |
| 330 | The business community in Burlington has also pushed back. | 伯灵顿的商业界也有所退缩. |
| 331 | In more than a dozen interviews, | 在十多次采访中, |
| 332 | local merchants spoke of feeling abandoned. | 当地商人说,他们感到被抛弃。 |
| 333 | In testimony before the state legislature, | 在州立法机构作证时 |
| 334 | Outdoor Gear Exchange的所有人报告说,2024年,该企业估计损失40万美元。 | |
| 335 | to shoplifting as addicts stole to support their habit. | 偷盗成瘾者来维持他们的习惯 |
| 336 | 在Homeport,一个40岁的家庭 | |
| 337 | store downtown, a co-owner, Mark Bouchette, told me that he lost $95,000 to shoplifting in 2024 | 市中心的商店,一个共同所有者,马克·布谢特, 告诉我,他损失了95,000美元 在2024年的商店盗窃 |
| 338 | and was forced to hire a security guard. | 并被迫雇用一名警卫。 |
| 339 | Drug users defecate in the doorways of businesses. | 吸毒者在企业门口排便。 |
| 340 | Bouchette joined 170 other business owners and restaurateurs who last year wrote an open letter | Bouchette加入了其他170家企业的业主 和去年写公开信的经理 |
| 341 | to the mayor warning that the city was in crisis. | 给市长的警告, 城市正处于危机之中。 |
| 342 | Their tone was reasonable. | 他们的语气很合理。 |
| 343 | They sought treatment | 他们要求治疗 |
| 344 | for addicts, not incarceration. | 对瘾君子,而不是监禁。 |
| 345 | But a broad coalition of the political left in Burlington, | 但在伯灵顿的政治左翼联盟 |
| 346 | unions, harm reduction groups, pro-Palestine and trans rights activist groups, and the local chapter | 工会、减少伤害团体、亲巴勒斯坦和跨权利活动团体以及地方分会 |
| 347 | of the Democratic Socialists of America countered with their own letter in which they'd announced | 美国民主社会主义者用他们自己的信回信 他们在信中宣布 |
| 348 | the business owners and demanded that they open bathrooms and sheltered doorways to addicts. | 要求他们打开卫生间,为吸毒成瘾者提供庇护。 |
| 349 | To call for more police to help address the city's drug problem, the group wrote, | 为了呼吁更多警察帮助解决城市的毒品问题, |
| 350 | would, quote, further harm our most vulnerable community members, end quote. | 将进一步伤害我们最脆弱的社区成员, |
| 351 | 签署者之一的Food Not Cops Burlington张贴并删除了抵制地图, | |
| 352 | the business owners. | 企业主。 |
| 353 | Overdose deaths in Vermont dropped last year to 170, a 37% decrease from the | 去年佛蒙特州过量死亡降至170人,比 |
| 354 | peak in 2022, but still far above the 78 deaths recorded in 2010. | 2022年达到高峰,但仍远高于2010年记录的78例死亡. |
| 355 | 在教堂的Ben & Jerry's | |
| 356 | Street, I saw staff hand out cards to customers who asked to use the bathroom, quote, Vermont is | 街и倒璶何┬ 倒倒и倒и倒 |
| 357 | experiencing a tragic increase in overdose fatalities. | 过量死亡人数悲惨增加。 |
| 358 | Our bathroom has also become a | 我们的浴室也变成了 |
| 359 | destination for folks seeking to inject drugs, end quote. | 寻找注射毒品的人的目的地 最后引文 |
| 360 | The bathroom was permanently locked. | 浴室被永久锁上了 |
| 361 | Families and children speak of being left on their own to navigate these harsh realities. | 家庭和儿童说,他们要独自面对这些严峻的现实。 |
| 362 | Through the King Street Center, I met a young woman who was earning top grades at the University | 通过王街中心,我遇见了一位年轻女子,她在大学读高年级 |
| 363 | of Vermont. | 佛蒙特州 佛蒙特州 |
| 364 | When she walks her younger sisters home from school, they pass drug dealers on the | 当她从学校带她妹妹回家时 他们把毒贩传到 |
| 365 | way. | 就是这样 |
| 366 | A Burlington high school student told me that her teachers have instructed students to avoid | 一位伯灵顿高中生告诉我 她的老师已经指示学生们避免 |
| 367 | eye contact with dealers and users. | 与经销商和用户的眼神接触. |
| 368 | A week earlier, she said, an addict had trailed her home after | 她说,一周前,一个瘾君子 跟着她回家 |
| 369 | volleyball practice. | 排球练习. |
| 370 | She broke into a run, yelling for help, and the person eventually turned away. | 她闯进跑道,大喊求救,最终那个人转身离去. |
| 371 | Then there was Brittany, a mother of three young children who moved two years ago from a | 然后是布列塔尼 一个有3个孩子的母亲 两年前从一个 |
| 372 | shelter to an apartment on King Street. | 住在国王街的公寓里 |
| 373 | She asked me not to use her last name, | 她叫我别用她的姓 |
| 374 | fearing for her family's safety. | 担心她家人的安全 |
| 375 | She said that she often found drug paraphernalia in the apartment | 她说她经常在公寓里 找到药物 |
| 376 | building and on some nights encountered an addict sleeping in the hallway. | 晚上在走廊上遇到一个瘾君子 |
| 377 | Her next door neighbor | 她隔壁的邻居 |
| 378 | was a fentanyl dealer. | 一个芬太尼庄家。 |
| 379 | She had constructed a safe room for her children to flee to in case of gunfire. | 她为孩子建造了一个安全的房间,以防发生枪战。 |
| 380 | Quote, everyone talks about needle exchange and harm reduction, she said. | 引用,大家谈论针头交换和减少伤害,她说. |
| 381 | I mean, okay, but it's | 我的意思是,好吧,但这是 |
| 382 | like my children and I are living in the zombie apocalypse. | 就像我的孩子和我生活在僵尸启示录里 |
| 383 | End quote. | 终引文. |
| 384 | Just a few years ago, | 仅仅几年前, |
| 385 | voters in Seattle seemed primed for a change. | 西雅图的选民似乎愿意改变 |
| 386 | In 2021, they elected Ann Davison, a moderate and | 2021年,他们选举安·戴维森为温和派, |
| 387 | independent-minded Republican, a city attorney. | 独立思想的共和党人 市检察官 |
| 388 | Sarah Nelson, a Democrat who had advertised her | 莎拉·纳尔逊,一个民主党人,曾经为她做广告 |
| 389 | willingness to challenge the harm reduction consensus, won a seat on the city council the | 并赢得市议会席位, |
| 390 | same year and became its president two years later. | 同年,并在两年后成为其主席. |
| 391 | With support from Davison, she passed laws cracking | 在戴维森的支持下,她通过了法律 |
| 392 | down on open drug use, prostitution and dealing downtown and substantially increasing the number | 公开吸毒、卖淫和在市中心做生意,并大大增加人数 |
| 393 | of surveillance cameras in high crime neighborhoods. | 高犯罪率街区的监控摄像头 |
| 394 | Nelson persuaded the city council to redirect | 尼尔森说服市议会改变方向 |
| 395 | money to on-demand addiction treatment. | 钱给按需戒毒治疗 |
| 396 | Quote, you can't meet people where they're at because | 引用,你不能遇到 人在那里,因为 |
| 397 | where they're at is on death's door, she told me, adding that she believes many addicts can be | 她告诉我 她相信很多瘾君子 |
| 398 | saved only by a firm push towards treatment. | 只能靠坚定的治疗 |
| 399 | Nelson also asked pointed questions about what | 纳尔逊还提出了尖锐的问题: |
| 400 | become the received wisdom in Seattle, such as why the county government paid millions of dollars | 成为西雅图的智慧, 比如为什么县政府支付数百万美元 |
| 401 | to supply kits to addicts with tinfoil pipes and instructions on how to smoke fentanyl. | 向吸毒成瘾者提供装有锡油管的药包,并指导如何吸烟。 |
| 402 | Incongruously, these kits came emblazoned with an image of Martin Luther King Jr., | 不知不觉间,这些包裹 与马丁路德金小。 |
| 403 | the namesake of King County. | 金县的地名 |
| 404 | What harm was reduced, Nelson asked at a 2023 council hearing | 纳尔逊在2023年的议会听证会上问道, |
| 405 | by helping addicts get high. | 通过帮助瘾君子得到高。 |
| 406 | Amber Tejada, an employee of a health nonprofit that had | Amber Tejada, 健康非盈利组织的雇员,曾获得 |
| 407 | with the city, raised her hand to answer, quote, I know it can be a little controversial, | 与城市,举起她的手 回答,引用, 我知道这可能有点争议, |
| 408 | she told the councilwoman, but one of the key tenants of harm reduction that I see | 她告诉了女议员,但是我看到 减少伤害的关键租户之一 |
| 409 | is that we want to be able to facilitate and champion autonomy of people who use drugs, | 我们希望能够促进和拥护吸毒者的自主权, |
| 410 | end quote. | 结尾引用。 |
| 411 | Tejada added, quote, there are folks for whom abstinence is not something by which | Tejada补充,引用, 一些人的禁欲 不是一个东西 |
| 412 | they measure their success in life, end quote. | 他们衡量自己在生活中的成功,最后引用。 |
| 413 | Nelson was no hardline conservative. | 纳尔逊不是强硬的保守派. |
| 414 | She pushed | 她推车 |
| 415 | expand the number of treatment beds for addicts and talked openly of her own past struggles with | 扩大吸毒成瘾者的治疗床位数量,公开讲述她过去与吸毒成瘾者的斗争。 |
| 416 | alcohol. | 饮酒。 |
| 417 | But in elections this last November, voters turned out both her and Davison. | 但在去年11月的选举中,选民们都发现了她和戴维森. |
| 418 | Their | 他们的 |
| 419 | replacements had concerns over the use of surveillance cameras and opposed laws that | 替换者对监控摄像头的使用表示关切,并反对那些使用监控摄像头的法规。 |
| 420 | barred repeated public drug users from certain areas in the city. | 禁止该市某些地区重复使用公共毒品者。 |
| 421 | I spoke with Davison in her | 我跟戴维森谈过了 |
| 422 | office shortly before her term was up. | 在她上任前不久的办公室 |
| 423 | She wrestled with her sense of a job not completed, | 她摔跤时觉得工作没有完成 |
| 424 | quote, it's really sad to watch the slow death of so many people, she said, adding later, quote, | 引言 看着这么多人的缓慢死亡 真是可悲 她说 稍后 引言 |
| 425 | you cannot act like this is a victimless crime, end quote. | 你不能表现得像个无受害者一样,最后引文。 |
| 426 | I asked Sandeep Kaushik, | 我问桑迪普·考希克 |
| 427 | a Democratic political consultant who has lived in Seattle for decades, if he could explain the | 一个民主政治顾问,在西雅图生活了几十年,如果他能解释一下 |
| 428 | persistent attraction of radical harm reduction policies in his city. | 持续吸引激进的减少伤害政策 在他的城市。 |
| 429 | Kaushik described himself | 考希克描述自己 |
| 430 | as a quote unquote unreconstructed Obama Democrat, which he noted, quote, codes me as a conservative | 作为未引用的引文 奥巴马民主党人, 他注意到,引文指出,我是一个保守派 |
| 431 | in some circles here, end quote. | 这里有些圈子 结尾部分 |
| 432 | He told me that local leaders, quote, really believe the city | 他告诉我,地方领导人,引用, 真正相信城市 |
| 433 | should be on the leading edge of translating progressive ideas into policy, end quote. | 应处于将进步思想转化为政策、最后引文的前沿。 |
| 434 | There is also a curious disconnect between the policies that political leaders put in place | 政治领导人制定的政策之间也出现了奇怪的脱节。 |
| 435 | and the desires of voters. | 和选民的欲望。 |
| 436 | In many polls, Seattle residents list crime and illegal drug use as among | 在许多民调中,西雅图居民将犯罪和非法吸毒列为其中之一。 |
| 437 | their greatest concerns. | 他们最大的关切。 |
| 438 | And a Seattle Times survey three years ago found that 60% of respondents | 三年前的西雅图时报调查发现 60%的受访者 |
| 439 | wanted police to arrest those who use drugs in public places. | 希望警察逮捕那些在公共场所吸毒的人。 |
| 440 | Last year, the city elected | 去年,城市选举 |
| 441 | a new mayor, Katie Wilson, a self described Democratic socialist with no experience in | 新任市长凯蒂·威尔逊 自我描述的民主社会主义者 |
| 442 | elected office. | 当选职务。 |
| 443 | Wilson has signaled an openness to pulling back some harm reduction policies. | 威尔逊已经表示开放 收回一些减少伤害的政策。 |
| 444 | 在她正式进入赛事前,她为西雅图的"阿尔特周刊"(The Alt Weekly)写了一篇散文"The Stranger","The Stranger",. | |
| 445 | in which she cautioned fellow leftists against smugness, quote, the central weakness of the left | 她警告左派同胞不要自大 引用左派的核心弱点 |
| 446 | narrative, she wrote, is a habit of deflection that makes it sound at best as though we are | 她写道: 叙事是一种偏移的习惯, 它的听力充其量就像我们 |
| 447 | in denial about the grim reality on the streets, end quote. | 以否认街头的严酷现实, |
| 448 | The left, she continued, should not | 左边,她接着说,不应该 |
| 449 | trivialize, quote, what anyone who spends some time walking around Seattle streets can plainly | 轻描淡写地说 任何在西雅图街上走动的人 |
| 450 | observe, people with acute mental illness whose behavior is disturbed and occasionally aggressive, | 观察,急性精神疾病的人 他们的行为受到干扰 偶尔攻击, |
| 451 | people using drugs, often incapacitated or passed out on the ground, end quote. | 使用毒品的人,常常丧失能力或晕倒在地,最后引文。 |
| 452 | Since she took | 自从她接受了 |
| 453 | office, Wilson has backed up her words by signing off on sweeps of large encampments in parks. | 威尔逊在公园的大型营地进行扫荡 以此为证 |
| 454 | Police and city workers had dismantled tents and carted away garbage. | 警察和城市工作人员拆除了帐篷,把垃圾运走。 |
| 455 | In late June, the mayor | 6月下旬,市长 |
| 456 | emerged from what she described in a statement as a period of, quote, deep listening and promised | 从她在发言中描述的一段时期中, |
| 457 | to, quote, disrupt the drug dealing and public disorder that plague the city's little Saigon | 来破坏毒品交易 扰乱整个城市的西贡 |
| 458 | and Beacon Hill neighborhoods. | 还有灯塔山的邻居 |
| 459 | The police, she said, would commit more officers to those areas | 她说,警察会把更多的警察送到那些地方 |
| 460 | and arrest users and dealers or press them to accept treatment. | 并逮捕用户和交易商,或迫使他们接受治疗。 |
| 461 | For a Seattle politician to | 一个西雅图政治家 |
| 462 | argue that tolerating drug crime and disorder amounts to harm enhancement registered as something | 认为容忍毒品犯罪和无序 等同于伤害增强 注册的东西 |
| 463 | close to startling news. | 近乎惊人的消息。 |
| 464 | Yet, Wilson runs a political risk. | 然而,威尔逊却面临政治风险. |
| 465 | By pledging to crack down, | 通过承诺破解, |
| 466 | she is broken with many of her allies and supporters. | 她和她的盟友和支持者们分手了 |
| 467 | Now she will be judged by her | 现在她会被她审判 |
| 468 | ability to clear the city's streets. | 有能力清除城市的街道。 |
| 469 | Andrea Suarez带领一个团体,我们心西雅图, | |
| 470 | that combines care for the homeless with a hardheaded insistence on legal consequences | 既照顾无家可归者,又坚持法律后果; |
| 471 | and addiction treatment for drug users. | 对吸毒者进行戒毒治疗。 |
| 472 | She was in Jose Rizal Park when police swept it one day | 一天警察扫荡时,她在Jose Rizal公园 |
| 473 | in April and watched users and dealers amble off into the woods or walk over to Little Saigon. | 看着用户和经销商纷纷走进树林 或者走到小西贡 |
| 474 | They returned a few hours later, she told me. | 几个小时后,他们回来,她告诉我。 |
| 475 | A day or two after that, the tents reappeared, | 之后一两天,帐篷重新出现, |
| 476 | quote, everyone who lives in this park knows there is no consequence for being swept multiple times | 引用一下,所有住在公园的人都知道 被多次扫荡不会有什么后果 |
| 477 | or doing drugs or vandalizing a park, end quote, Suarez said. | 或者吸毒或者破坏公园 苏亚雷斯说 |
| 478 | What's baffling is that none of this | 令人困惑的是,这些都没有 |
| 479 | lies beyond the ability of city officials to address. | 这超出了城市官员的能力。 |
| 480 | San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has | 旧金山市长丹尼尔·卢里 |
| 481 | instructed police to crack down on dealers and dismantle tent cities. | 命令警察查封毒贩 拆除帐篷城市 |
| 482 | Philadelphia Mayor Sherrell | 费城市长谢雷尔 |
| 483 | Parker has sent officers into drug-scarred neighborhoods and established a treatment | Parker派了警察进入毒瘾街区 并建立了治疗机制 |
| 484 | court which offers first-time felony drug offenders a chance to avoid jail if they enter | 法院为首次犯有重罪的毒品罪犯提供在进入监狱时避免监禁的机会 |
| 485 | treatment programs. | 治疗方案。 |
| 486 | San Jose, California has put more police officers in targeted neighborhoods, | 加州的圣何塞 已经安排了更多的警察 在目标街区, |
| 487 | built emergency housing as police dismantle homeless encampments, and increased fines for | 建造紧急住房,因为警察拆除了无家可归的营地,并增加了对 |
| 488 | landlords whose abandoned buildings are used by dealers to sell drugs and guns. | 其废弃建筑被经销商用来出售毒品和枪支的地主. |
| 489 | In Boston, Mayor Michelle Wu was once enamored of harm reduction and injection centers, | 在波士顿,市长米歇尔 吴曾对减少伤害和注射中心很着迷 |
| 490 | but she has ordered police to clear street encampments, and her administration now puts | 但是她已经命令警察 清除街道营地, 而她的行政部门现在 |
| 491 | more emphasis on pushing addicts into treatment by detaining them if necessary. | 更加强调必要时拘留吸毒者,以促使他们接受治疗。 |
| 492 | Wu has also dropped | 吴也掉了 |
| 493 | all mention of injection centers from her plans. | 她的计划中都提到了注射中心 |
| 494 | In Seattle, by contrast, efforts to reduce public | 在西雅图,反之,减少公众的努力 |
| 495 | drug use force afflicted neighborhoods to pay a high price. | 吸毒迫使邻居付出高昂代价。 |
| 496 | For years, when playgrounds and parks | 多年来,当游乐场和公园 |
| 497 | became drug hotspots, the city reacted by fencing them off, depriving families of access. | 成为毒品热点, 城市的反应是用栅栏围住他们, |
| 498 | In May, | 5月时, |
| 499 | police and city workers returned to Jose Rizal Park and again booted out dealers and addicts, | 警察和城市工人回到Jose Rizal公园, 并再次踢出毒贩和瘾君子, |
| 500 | preparing the park for a renovation. | 准备公园的翻修。 |
| 501 | As a first step, city workers dismantled the picnic pavilion | 作为第一步,城市工人拆除了野餐亭 |
| 502 | where addicts smoked and shot up, its condition having deteriorated from all of the misuse. | 吸毒成瘾者吸烟和被枪毙,其状况因滥用而恶化。 |
| 503 | Park officials do not plan on replacing it, acknowledging the obvious and bureaucrat ease. | 公园官员没有计划取代它,承认明显的官僚主义的轻松. |
| 504 | The park, quote, has been impacted by activities not aligned with intended use, end quote. | 引文指出,公园受到了与预期用途不符的活动的影响。 |
| 505 | The bus shelter around the corner where drug users gathered day and night was also ripped out, | 毒品使用者日夜聚集的街角 公共汽车掩体也被拆了 |
| 506 | quote, because of an increase in loitering, littering, and vandalism, end quote. | 引用,因为游荡、乱丢垃圾和破坏行为增加,最后引用。 |
| 507 | A King | 一个国王 |
| 508 | County metro representative told me by email. | 县地铁代表通过电子邮件告诉我的. |
| 509 | All of this felt like another admission of defeat. | 所有这一切感觉就像又一次承认失败。 |
| 510 | Officials destroying Seattle in the name of saving it. | 官员以拯救西雅图为名摧毁西雅图. |
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