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Narrator: The cocaine produced by peasant farmers in Colombia is smuggled across international borders by traffickers.
旁白：哥倫比亞的農民生產的可卡因被毒梟通過國家邊境偷運出去。
It's sold on city streets by dealers, and snorted and smoked by 1.9 million Americans.
由毒販子在城市街道兜售，被190萬美國人所吸食。
360,000 of these are hard core crack addicts. And one of these addicts is 49 year-old "Loco."
其中36萬人是鐵桿的快客癮君子。49歲的“樂克”就位列其中。
Loco: I first started using cocaine when I was like 15.
樂克：當我大概15歲時，我第一次開始用可卡因。
One day I was down in the basement with my uncle, and I see my uncle doing something, and I got curious and I wanted to know what it was, so I tried it.
有一天，我和我叔叔下到地下室，我看到我叔叔在做什么，我很好奇，我想知道那是什么，所以我就嘗試了一下。
I tried it and I liked it, and I've been using it ever since.
我試了一下，我喜歡它，后來我就一直在用。
Narrator: Smoking crack has diminishing returns.
旁白：吸食快客后的感覺越來越淡。
The euphoria delivered by the first hit from a crack pipe is always the greatest.
快客吸管產生的高潮式欣快感總是最強烈的。
Then users continue to smoke in an attempt to recapture the impact of that first hit.
然后吸食者繼續吸食，企圖再經歷一下那種初潮的感覺。
Loco: Once you get high with the cocaine once, you basically high as you're going to get, that first hit.
樂克：一旦你吸一次可卡因，覺得很爽，基本上，你就還想體驗那種很爽的感覺——就是初潮。
What you're doing is chasing that first hit over and over and over and over, which you never, never get.
你所做的就是追求那種初潮，一遍一遍又一遍，但是你再也得不到那種感覺。
Narrator: Loco smokes at least 10 crack rocks a day. At $10 a rock his habit costs him a small fortune.
旁白：樂克一天至少抽10支洛克。10美元一支洛克，他的毒癮花費不凡。
Loco: If I get $200 today, I'm gonna spend $200 today, whatever I have, that's what I'm gonna use.
樂克：如果我今天有200美元，我今天就會花掉200美元，無論我有多少，我都會用光。
It'll take me four or five hours to smoke that.
我會花費四五個小時來抽它。
