万花筒 Kaleidoscope2007-08-21&08-22, 美国校园毒品泛滥

If you doubt there are drugs in most American schools, just visit your local police station.

We have cluster of some marijuana here, prescription¹ drugs, pills are a favorite, they take them out of their parents' medicine cabinets.
That's one stash² from one high school seized in one day.
According to a new study, kids' getting high inside middle and high school is no longer just a problem, it's an epidemic³.
I think it tells us first that our middle and high schools are really infested⁴ with drugs.
Infested?
Now we have some schools here that are now marijuana marts and pill palaces for these kids. (学校成了大麻市场和药丸的宫殿）
This study about the National Center on Addiction⁵ and Substance Abuse found that since 2002 the number of kids attending schools where drugs are used has jumped 39% in high school up 63% in middle school.
A show of hands if you’ve ever known anyone to be high in school, everybody.
But then again it's / so hard to avoid it because it's so common now.
These 6 teenagers are all student leaders at Whitewater high school in Fayette County Georgia just south of the Atlanta.

There’s no benefit to you or to your peers to be involved with drugs and alcohol. Zero.
Whitewater is one of the premier⁶ public high schools in the country.
Yet even here drug and alcohol abuse is an issue.
What would the principal of a high school in 1978 face versus⁷ what you face in 2007?
I think in 1978 they faced primarily alcohol and marijuana.
And today?
Today we're facing marijuana, we’re facing cocaine⁸ and high levels crack, alcohol.
According to the study 17% of high school students say they could buy marijuana somewhere on campus in an hour. 37% say they could do it in a day.
It’s a problem, say the experts, regardless of the kid's color creed⁹ or ZIP CODE .
As for solutions
If parents took part in their children's lives more and talk to them more
If not the solution, the experts agree, it’s a start.
Byron Pitts CBS news, Fayette county Georgia.

1 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。

2 stash   

v.藏或贮存于一秘密处所；n.隐藏处

参考例句：

• Stash away both what you lost and gained,for life continues on.将得失深藏心底吧，为了那未来的生活。
• That's supposed to be in our private stash.这是我的私人珍藏。

3 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。

4 infested   

adj.为患的，大批滋生的（常与with搭配）v.害虫、野兽大批出没于( infest的过去式和过去分词 )；遍布于

参考例句：

• The kitchen was infested with ants. 厨房里到处是蚂蚁。
• The apartments were infested with rats and roaches. 公寓里面到处都是老鼠和蟑螂。

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 premier   

adj.首要的；n.总理，首相

参考例句：

• The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
• He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。

7 versus   

prep.以…为对手，对；与…相比之下

参考例句：

• The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
• The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。

8 cocaine   

n.可卡因，古柯碱（用作局部麻醉剂）

参考例句：

• That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
• Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。

9 creed   

n.信条；信念，纲领

参考例句：

• They offended against every article of his creed.他们触犯了他的每一条戒律。
• Our creed has always been that business is business.我们的信条一直是公私分明。