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"Well," said York, "we'll get it for you." At the time, she'd never heard of methamphetamine, the cheap, dangerously addictive drug that has spawned a nationwide public health epidemic. Prolonged exposure triggers paranoia, neurological damage, and such overpowering dependence that users can think of nothing beyond the pursuit of more meth. Crime increases and fires break out from clumsy handling of chemicals as addicts cook up batches of the drug in homelabs, threatening whole neighborhoods.
"嗯，"約克說，"我們將為你們獲取情報。"當時，約克從未聽說過脫氧麻黃堿，一種已經釀成全國性公共衛生瘟疫的便宜的極容易上癮的毒品。長期使用會引起妄想狂病癥、神經損傷和極強的依賴性，其結果是使用者整天就想著尋找更多的脫氧麻黃堿。犯罪增加，而癮君子們在家庭實驗室熬制成批毒品時由于對化學品處置笨拙常常會引發火災，威脅整個社區的安全。
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York, whose own mother had become addicted to drugs and killed herself at age 47, now watched in horror as the drug scene unfolded on her own street. "We could smell the fumes andsee the paranoia," she says. "One day I saw LaShawn up on her roof sweeping away 'little green men.'" Kids found syringes and drug pipes in the grass. Gunshots were heard in the house.
約克自己的母親曾經吸毒成癮，47歲自殺身亡，現在吸毒販毒的場景就在她自己的街上展開，約克看著心中毛骨悚然。"我們可以聞到毒品的氣味，看到妄想狂，"她說。"有一天，我見到拉肖恩站在屋頂上掃走‘綠色小矮人’。"孩子在草地里發現了毒品注射器和吸毒用的煙槍。拉肖恩的家里傳來槍聲。
"We were terrified," says York. One Saturday, she and Brooklynn saw a guy in a black pickup violently ramming LaShawn's car, trying to push it into the wetlands. "I want my money!" he shouted.
"我們感到極度恐懼，"約克說。有一個星期六，她和布魯克林看到一個家伙開著黑色敞篷小貨車猛撞拉肖恩的汽車，試圖將它推到濕地里去。"還我錢!"他大喊著。
"Next thing we knew," York recalls,"the guy was running toward my husband with a baseball bat."Another night she looked out the window to see cops jumping over her fish pond. That was it.
"緊接著，"約克回憶道，"那個家伙拿著棒球球棒向我丈夫沖了過來。"還有一天夜里，她從窗戶望出去看到警察從她的魚塘上面跳過。就這樣。
