美国国家公共电台 NPR After Drug Treatment, Men In Recovery Work To Live A 'Normal Life'

 

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

This year, the opioid crisis has continued to plague communities across the country. Several states have recently declared opioid emergencies, and President Trump¹ has labeled the crisis a national public health emergency. That drew attention to the issue, but it didn't come with any new funding. Earlier this year as part of our Kitchen Table series, we met three men who were near the end of their residential³ treatment program. One of them was Terry Lilly, who was recovering from a heroin⁴ addiction⁵. Here's how he described his addiction at that point.

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TERRY LILLY: It scratched my itch². To helped me deal with the emotional problems that I wasn't dealing⁶ with. So it didn't take long for me to give away my career, my house, my car, things like that.

SIEGEL: NPR's Sarah McCammon went back to Huntington, W. Va., to check in on Lilly and the two others.

SARAH MCCAMMON, BYLINE⁷: When I met Jarrod Book, Aaron Pardue and Terry Lilly earlier this year, they were getting ready to begin navigating⁸ normal life in Huntington, W. Va. The state has led the nation in deaths related to abuse of opioids like heroin and prescription⁹ drugs. Standing¹⁰ outside his apartment in a quiet neighborhood, Terry Lilly says life on his own is good but challenging. At 38, he's trying to rebuild his life.

LILLY: I'm starting from scratch in a lot of different areas, and it's overwhelming.

MCCAMMON: One of the hardest parts of being in recovery, Lilly says, is that he remembers what it's like to hustle¹¹ up, get 20 or 30 bucks¹² together and buy enough heroin to forget about his problems for a few hours.

LILLY: Now you put in the grind. You go to work. And you know, you may work hard. And then you pay rent and your utility bills, and you don't really have much leftover¹³ for, you know, fun or frivolity¹⁴ or whatever. So like I said, the payoff is - it's different.

MCCAMMON: Across town, Jarrod Book lives with his roommates and their pet python.

JARROD BOOK: His name's Lord Farquaad after the villain¹⁵ from the "Shrek" movie.

MCCAMMON: Book is 25 and working as a case manager for a drug treatment facility just across the border in Ohio. Because his substance abuse started even before he was in high school, Book says he's now learning how to do normal adult stuff for the first time, things like paying bills.

BOOK: It was always whatever money I had went to fuel my addiction. And so now, like, learning how to budget and stuff has been hard. But, like, it's getting better I guess.

MCCAMMON: Book says he gets a lot of support from his roommates, who are also in recovery, and his family. He says that's helped him stay clean since graduating from the residential treatment program called Recovery Point. Another graduate, Aaron Pardue, is also working full-time¹⁶ in the addiction treatment field as a recovery coach for people on probation¹⁷ and parole. His office is at a homeless drop-in center in Huntington. Pardue says he's grateful he found full-time work despite his history of drug abuse and jail time. Some of his clients aren't so lucky.

AARON PARDUE: It's the hardest thing in the world to see somebody get sober turn their complete life around and then come back out here just to a society where they can't get a job. Some of them can't even get jobs at McDonald's. I mean, how many years do you have to pay for something that you've committed in the past?

MCCAMMON: And then there are those who come in needing treatment, but there's nowhere to send them.

PARDUE: You see it in their eyes. They're completely broken down. They're crying, and you can't make it happen because there's no beds. There's no place to send them. And you have to send them back out that door. And once they go through that door, you don't know if they're going to be back.

MCCAMMON: Pardue says states like West Virginia need more funding for treatment. All three of the men in recovery say they're glad President Trump and other leaders have focused attention on the opioid epidemic¹⁸, but they want more action. Back at his apartment, Terry Lilly says he heard about Trump's declaration of an opioid emergency, but he's still waiting to see change.

LILLY: I think it's great as far as a soundbite and a, you know - if he wants to say that that's something that he has accomplished¹⁹ or put that in his resume or whatever. That's great. But I personally am not aware of what that has translated to.

MCCAMMON: Lilly and the others say they're thinking less about what's happening in Washington these days than about getting up each morning here in Huntington and staying clean. Sarah McCammon, NPR News, Huntington, W. Va.

1 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

2 itch   

n.痒，渴望，疥癣；vi.发痒，渴望

参考例句：

• Shylock has an itch for money.夏洛克渴望发财。
• He had an itch on his back.他背部发痒。

3 residential   

adj.提供住宿的；居住的；住宅的

参考例句：

• The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
• The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。

4 heroin   

n.海洛因

参考例句：

• Customs have made their biggest ever seizure of heroin.海关查获了有史以来最大的一批海洛因。
• Heroin has been smuggled out by sea.海洛因已从海上偷运出境。

5 addiction   

n.上瘾入迷，嗜好

参考例句：

• He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
• Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。

6 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

7 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

8 navigating   

v.给（船舶、飞机等）引航，导航( navigate的现在分词 )；（从海上、空中等）横越；横渡；飞跃

参考例句：

• These can also be very useful when navigating time-based documents, such as video and audio. 它对于和时间有关的文档非常有用，比如视频和音频文档。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
• Vehicles slowed to a crawl on city roads, navigating slushy snow. 汽车在市区路上行驶缓慢，穿越泥泞的雪地。 来自互联网

9 prescription   

n.处方，开药；指示，规定

参考例句：

• The physician made a prescription against sea- sickness for him.医生给他开了个治晕船的药方。
• The drug is available on prescription only.这种药只能凭处方购买。

10 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

11 hustle   

v.推搡；竭力兜售或获取；催促；n.奔忙(碌)

参考例句：

• It seems that he enjoys the hustle and bustle of life in the big city.看起来他似乎很喜欢大城市的热闹繁忙的生活。
• I had to hustle through the crowded street.我不得不挤过拥挤的街道。

12 bucks   

n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 )；钱；（英国十九世纪初的）花花公子；（用于某些表达方式）责任v.（马等）猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 )；抵制；猛然震荡；马等尥起后蹄跳跃

参考例句：

• They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
• They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》

13 leftover   

n.剩货，残留物，剩饭；adj.残余的

参考例句：

• These narrow roads are a leftover from the days of horse-drawn carriages.这些小道是从马车时代沿用下来的。
• Wonder if that bakery lets us take leftover home.不知道那家糕饼店会不会让我们把卖剩的带回家。

14 frivolity   

n.轻松的乐事，兴高采烈；轻浮的举止

参考例句：

• It was just a piece of harmless frivolity. 这仅是无恶意的愚蠢行为。
• Hedonism and frivolity will diffuse hell tnrough all our days. 享乐主义和轻薄浮佻会将地狱扩展到我们的整个日子之中。 来自辞典例句

15 villain   

n.反派演员，反面人物；恶棍；问题的起因

参考例句：

• He was cast as the villain in the play.他在戏里扮演反面角色。
• The man who played the villain acted very well.扮演恶棍的那个男演员演得很好。

16 full-time   

adj.满工作日的或工作周的，全时间的

参考例句：

• A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
• I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顾家庭又要全天工作，我不知道她是如何对付的。

17 probation   

n.缓刑(期)，(以观后效的)察看；试用(期)

参考例句：

• The judge did not jail the young man,but put him on probation for a year.法官没有把那个年轻人关进监狱，而且将他缓刑察看一年。
• His salary was raised by 800 yuan after his probation.试用期满以后，他的工资增加了800元。

18 epidemic   

n.流行病；盛行；adj.流行性的，流传极广的

参考例句：

• That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
• The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。

19 accomplished   

adj.有才艺的；有造诣的；达到了的

参考例句：

• Thanks to your help,we accomplished the task ahead of schedule.亏得你们帮忙,我们才提前完成了任务。
• Removal of excess heat is accomplished by means of a radiator.通过散热器完成多余热量的排出。