America and Asia are in the grip of an epidemic.
美洲和亞洲被毒品所籠罩。
Coming in!
進來!
Methamphetamine, one of the world's most powerful stimulants, can be made at home like modern day Moonshine from chemicals found in any pharmacy or hardware store.
甲基苯丙胺,是世界上最強效的興奮劑之一,可以進行作坊式生產,就像現在用藥店和五金店的化學品私釀烈酒一樣。
Mike Hall: The way the meth is right now, it's like nothing I've ever seen in my career.
麥克·霍爾:冰毒就是這么制造的,這與我的職業生涯中,所見的都不一樣。
It's toxic and it destroys lives.
它是有毒的,它能摧毀生命。
Mark Buckner: Burnt everything I had everything I own.
馬克·巴克納:燒毀了我所擁有的一切。
Addiction quickly takes hold. Organized crime steps in.
毒癮迅速生根。有組織犯罪接踵而至。
And law enforcement is left to face the rising crime wave.
執法部門被迫面對不斷上升的犯罪浪潮。
Now would be a good time to identify yourself.
現在最好出示你的身份證明。
Producers, traffickers, dealers, users, doctors, police, they're all part of the $300 billion a year global industry that is, Drugs Incorporated.
制造者、毒梟、毒販子、吸毒者、醫生和警察,共同構成了每年價值3000億美元的全球性行業,那就是毒品公司。
Methamphetamine addiction plagues America and much of the world.
甲基苯丙胺成癮給美洲和世界上多數地區帶來災難。
It can be injected, smoked or snorted, and one hit gets a user high for as long as eight hours.
它可以注射、抽吸或鼻吸,一次高潮可以讓吸毒者致幻達八小時。
More addictive than cocaine or alcohol, meth traps users into a devastating cycle.
比可卡因或酒精的成癮性都強,冰毒讓吸毒者陷入惡性循環。
All over the U.S. , thousands of petty dealers sell methamphetamine under the street names 'crank', 'crystal', 'glass', or 'ice'.
全美的幾千名小販子,在名為“速度”、“水晶”、“玻璃”、或“冰” 的街頭兜售甲基苯丙胺。
A man going by the alias Juan Lopez began his drug career selling crack cocaine for a Hispanic street gang known as the Mexican Mafia.
一名別名為胡安·洛佩斯的男子其毒品生涯開始于兜售快客可卡因,為拉美裔街頭幫派——墨西哥黑手黨做事。
The drugs have changed a lot you know in the last, ten years. Meth has taken over.
洛佩斯:最近十年,你知道,毒品已經發生了變化。被冰毒所取代。
LA. The mid '90s. A new product appears on the streets: Crystalline methamphetamine.
洛杉磯。20世紀90年代中期。在街頭出現一個新的產品:結晶甲基苯丙胺。
It's cheaper than crack cocaine and more potent. It becomes an instant hit with drug users.
比快客可卡因更便宜,更烈性。它變成吸毒者的搶手貨。
All the crack users went to smoke meth. All the people that were snorting coke went to snort Meth.
所有的快客吸毒者轉向抽吸冰毒。所有鼻吸可卡因的人都轉向鼻吸冰毒。