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Narrator: Many HIV positive men in the city end up having unprotected sex with one other.
旁白：城市里許多HIV陽性男性最終都會與他人發生不安全的性行為。
Schirmer: You know, there's a population of people who shoot crystal meth, or who use crystal meth who are all HIV.
席爾默：嗯，有一大群人注射水晶冰毒，或吸食水晶冰毒的人都是HIV。
And so that sex pool, that pool of people you know, can all have sex with each other and not worry about transmission to one another, which is in some ways has been like kind of a beautiful part of it, of, of the crystal meth scene.
那樣的性群體，那群人，嗯，可能性群交，并不擔心互相傳染。在某種程度上，儼然就是水晶冰毒現場表演的漂亮成員。
Narrator: Crystal Meth soon becomes more than just a club drug.
旁白：不久，水晶冰毒不僅僅是一種俱樂部毒品。
Homosexual Meth users turn to Internet dating sites to hook up, and the search term 'Party and Play' or 'PnP' becomes code for drug-fuelled sex.
同性戀冰毒吸食者轉向互聯網約會網站釣魚，搜索詞條“狂歡作樂”或“PnP”成為毒品助性的代名詞。
Seiver: If you put PnP people, instantly know that you're interested in doing crystal meth and having sex.
希維：如果你輸入PnP，人們馬上知道你關注水晶冰毒和性交。
You know, it's kind of like the fast food version of, of sex and drugs is, you know, and you get online and you can have someone, at your door within minutes with drugs and ready to have sex with you.
嗯，就像快餐版的性和毒品，嗯，你會上線找一個人，讓他幾分鐘內帶著毒品來到門口，準備跟你性交。
Narrator: For those high on drugs, practicing safe sex is often forgotten in the haze.
旁白：對于那些因毒品而癲狂的人來說，安全性行為常常被遺忘至角落。
Seiver: You can get high on crystal meth and party all night long.
希維：你靠水晶冰毒達到癲狂狀態，徹夜狂歡。
And Partying all night long can mean having sex with lots of guys all night long, even days on end, because the drug keeps you high for that long, and unfortunately what often happens is that using any kind of protection goes out the window.
徹夜狂歡意味著徹夜與多人性交。甚至幾天才結束，因為毒品讓你長時間的癲狂，不幸的事經常發生，根本不采用任何保護措施。
Narrator: When HIV negative men join in, the crystal meth craze becomes even more deadly.
旁白：當HIV陰性的人加入時，水晶冰毒的狂潮變得更致命。
Schirmer: You have the people who are newly coming into the crystal meth scene who lose all their inhibitions and are HIV negative who are really vulnerable, and especially when you have like, you know, HIV areas and non HIV areas all shooting up and all losing their inhibitions at once.
席爾默：你讓一個HIV陰性的新人失去其所有的禁忌，加入水晶冰毒現場表演，他會非常脆弱，特別是當你要讓，嗯，HIV區和非HIV區全部注射并同時失去其所有的禁忌。
Narrator: Of the 28,000 cases of AIDS diagnosed in San Francisco through 2008, three quarters were among men who have sex with other men.
旁白：截至2008年，舊金山診斷出28000例AIDS病患，四分之三的男性都與其他男性發生過性行為。
Within this community, crystal meth is now a major driver for new HIV infection.
在這個社區中，水晶冰毒業已成為HIV感染的主要驅動力。
Seiver: Gay men who use methamphetamine are three to four times more likely to have HIV than the gay men who don't.
希維：吸食甲基苯丙胺的男同性戀感染HIV的概率比不吸食的男同性戀高三四倍。
It's really a significant part of why HIV infections continue to occur.
這的確是不斷出現HIV感染的一大重要因素。
Narrator: Despite the risk, the pleasures that come with crystal make it extremely hard to give up.
旁白：雖然具有風險，水晶帶來的愉悅感使其非常難以放棄。
Schirmer: It was the most psychologically addictive drug I've ever taken in my life, and to this day getting off crystal meth, I think is a lot harder than getting off heroin.
席爾默：它是我這輩子吸食過的最容易心理成癮的毒品。我覺得現在戒掉水晶冰毒比戒掉海洛因難得多。
Narrator: The overall cost of methamphetamine to the United States is estimated at $23 billion a year, but the human cost of the ruined relationships, careers, and health of addicts, is impossible to quantify.
旁白：美國用于甲基苯丙胺的總體花費估計為一年230億美元。但用于被破壞的關系、職業和癮君子保健的人力成本，是無法計算的。
Even so, $35 billion worth of profits from producing and distributing meth continue to pour into Drugs, Inc.
即便如此，生產和散發冰毒獲得的350億美元利潤還是源源不斷地流進了毒品公司。
