The largest methamphetamine market in the western hemisphere.
最大的甲基苯丙胺市場在西半球。
Dealers sell meth on the streets, and a new wave of self-manufacturing means it's even easier to produce at home.
毒販子在街頭兜售冰毒,新的自我制造浪潮意味著作坊式生產更為容易。
In the state of Missouri, an estimated 53,000 people use methamphetamine.
在密蘇里州,大概53000人吸食甲基苯丙胺。
Steve Box was an addict for ten years.
史蒂夫·博科斯是一名有十年癮齡的癮君子。
He first tried meth at the age of 25 while experimenting with cocaine.
他首次嘗試冰毒是25歲,當時他還在吸食可卡因。

The very first time was when you would be using cocaine, and somebody would have some meth and it would look similar to cocaine, and, and you would like snort some and you'd know immediately it wasn't cocaine that it was crank.
第一次是當你吸食可卡因時,有人有些冰毒,看起來就像可卡因一樣,你會鼻吸一些,然后你馬上知道那不是可卡因,而是“速度”。
'cause it would... it burns like somebody sticking a hot poker up your nose.
因為它燃燒起來就像有人用熱火棍戳在你鼻子上。
Steve is one of the only 6% of addicts who manage to kick the habit.
只有6%的吸毒者擺脫了毒癮,史蒂夫就是其中一個。
Now he's dedicated to helping others fight meth addiction.
現在,他致力于幫助別人戒除冰毒毒癮。
He's written two books about his struggle and runs a Christian campaign called Meth=Sorcery.
他寫了兩本書,都是關于他的斗爭并發起了一場名為冰毒=巫術的基督教運動。
When I got off the meth, I wrote the book Meth=Sorcery, and we send the book to prisoners that are locked up in prisons and we've probably been close to 100,000 books put into the American county jail prison system.
當我擺脫冰毒后,我寫了這本名為冰毒=巫術的書,我們向被關在監獄里的囚犯送書,我們向美國的郡監獄系統大概投放了10萬本。
He receives hundreds of letters from meth addicts seeking his support.
他收到了幾百封冰毒癮君子的來信,以尋求他的支持。
Just a few today from Texas, Texas and Oklahoma.
僅僅幾天,從得克薩斯州,得克薩斯州和俄克拉何馬州。
I've got letters from, believe it or not, serial killers in New York to doctors, lawyers, preachers. Just about every walk of life.
我收到了信件,信不信由你,從紐約的連環殺手到醫生、律師和牧師。幾乎是各行各業。
It's not always the guy that's over in the trailer park, you know, it's, Er, just, you name it.
并非全是住在貧民區的家伙,嗯,還有呃,就像你提到的。
I think I've received a letter from about every profession there is.
我想我收到了來自各行各業的信。
Steve once owned a successful business manufacturing gym equipment.
史蒂夫曾經擁有一個成功的企業,制造健身器材。
Snorting meth, or 'crank' as he calls it, helped him keep up with the flow of orders.
鼻吸冰毒,或是他所說的“速度”,幫助他保持訂單流。
I noticed with the crank that I could stay up you know, 24 hours a day and I could work for you know, a week or 2 straight without stopping.
我注意到,冰毒讓我可以熬到,嗯,每天24小時不睡,我可以連續一兩個星期不停地工作。
Methamphetamine makes the user feel euphoric, alert and powerful.
甲基苯丙胺使吸食者感到欣快、警覺和強大。
Steve soon begins smoking his meth in a pipe to get a stronger, faster high.
不久,史蒂夫開始用吸管抽吸冰毒,以獲得更強烈、更迅速的高潮。
Eventually he starts dealing the drug, and his business begins to suffer.
最后,他開始販賣毒品,他的生意開始受到影響。
You know, I got to where I was just, I was selling meth and I was no longer building my weight equipment.
嗯,我只是,我銷售冰毒,不再制造健身設備。
And you know, the shop was still kind of like open, but we were, we were just doing something different.
嗯,店鋪還貌似開業,但我們,我們不過是在賣別的東西。
Meth's extraordinary rush leads to horrific after-effects, including severe depression and an inability to eat or sleep.
冰毒的非比尋常的高潮帶來可怕的后遺癥,包括重度抑郁癥,無法進食或入睡。
You feel like you want, you wanna just rip your face off.
你感覺想,你真想撕開你的臉。
And when you do finally get some real sleep you twitch, and you jerk.
當你最后真的入睡時,你抽搐,你痙攣。