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Narrator: This lack of self-control not only adds to the severity of the addiction, but also leads to other violent or compulsive behavior.
旁白：由于缺乏自控能力不僅加重了成癮性的嚴重程度，而且還導致了其他的暴力或沖動行為。
Maggie Lavalle found herself unable to control an impulse to steal.
瑪吉·拉瓦發現自己無法控制偷竊的沖動。
Maggie Lavalle: I embezzled $32,000.
瑪吉·拉瓦：我挪用了32000美元。
I closed down a gas station that I worked at.
我關閉了一家我工作的加油站。
Whatever I needed I had it 'cause I took the money.
因為我拿了錢，所以就能得到我想要的任何東西。
Narrator: Dr. London has discovered that the brain damage can often, but not always, repair itself.
旁白：倫敦博士發現大腦損傷往往，但不是一直，會自我修復。
While the search for a medical cure continues, the only real option available to addicts is behavioral therapy, like drug counseling.
雖然還在繼續摸索醫療治愈，癮君子的唯一真正選擇就是行為治療，例如濫用毒品咨詢。
Maggie Lavalle's story isn't unusual.
瑪吉·拉瓦的故事并不罕見。
In some Californian cities, nearly a third of all persons arrested test positive for methamphetamine.
在加州的某些城市，近三分之一的被捕者其甲基苯丙胺檢測陽性。
At the Santa Barbara County Jail, Chuck McClain is determined to combat the problem.
在圣巴巴拉郡監獄，查克·麥克萊恩決心來解決這個問題。
Chuck: We started 12 years ago.
查克：12年前我們就開始了。
The chief of the jail at that time decided that, you know, we need to get something going here because, you know, they run a 75% recidivism rate.
監獄負責人在那時下定決心，嗯，我們需要對此做點什么，因為，嗯，他們的再犯率達75%。
Narrator: McClain has 150 inmates in behavioural therapy for drug abuse. 65% of them are meth users.
旁白：有150名犯人接受麥克萊恩的濫用毒品行為療法。其中65%是冰毒吸食者。
They receive a combination of reading materials, group therapy sessions and one-on-one counselling.
他們接受聯合治療，讀書，小組治療和一對一輔導。
Like many inmates at Santa Barbara, Dave Wagman is a repeat offender.
與圣巴巴拉的許多犯人一樣，戴夫·韋格曼是慣犯。
Dave: The way I use is, they're called runs or binges I would inject myself up to 5 or 6 times a day if the stuff was reasonably good.
戴夫：我的方式是，他們所謂的奔跑或狂歡，我每天注射五六次，如果東西是相當不錯的。
Probably the last five years I cannot stop doing it until I get arrested.
差不多在過去五年中，在被逮捕前，我一直這樣做。
Narrator: For many, Chuck's program works.
旁白：對許多人來說，查克的計劃生效了。
34% of the inmates are caught re-offending far lower than the jail's 75% average.
34%的犯人因再犯被抓，遠低于監獄的平均水平。
Still it means over a third of his participants will return to jail.
盡管如此，這意味著超過三分之一的參與者會返回監獄。
Chuck will see some of these faces again and again.
查克會一次次地看到這些面孔。
Chuck: You have children? - Olga: Seven. - Chuck: You have seven kids? - Olga: Yes. - Chuck: How old are you? -Olga: I'm 34. -Chuck: 34.
查克：你有孩子嗎？－奧爾加：七個。－查克：你有七個孩子？－奧爾加：是的。－查克：你多大了？－奧爾加：我34了。－查克：34。
Narrator: Keeping a prisoner in Santa Barbara Jail costs $26,000 a year. It's a heavy burden for the taxpayers.
旁白：圣巴巴拉監獄的一名囚犯每年花費26000美元。是納稅人的一大沉重負擔。
Nationally, the cost of methamphetamine-related crime is estimated at around $4 billion.
在全國范圍內，與甲基苯丙胺有關的犯罪成本預計為40億美元左右。
Chuck: When they're out there using, they're not working, they're not contributing to society.
查克：他們從這里出去，他們不工作，他們沒有為社會作出貢獻。
They're taking away from society.
他們正在遠離社會。
It takes a lot of money to house 'em, it takes a lot of money for the police force to arrest them and so on and so forth. And that's a huge cost.
容留他們需要一大筆錢，需要花費大把金錢來動用警力逮捕他們，等等等等。這是一個巨大的成本。
And that's what this is all about, is reducing the cost to the community at large of addiction.
說一千道一萬就是，降低毒癮的社會成本。
