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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，"约克说，"我们将为你们获取情报。"当时，约克从未听说过脱氧麻黄碱，一种已经酿成全国性公共卫生瘟疫的便宜的极容易上瘾的毒品。长期使用会引起妄想狂病症、神经损伤和极强的依赖性，其结果是使用者整天就想着寻找更多的脱氧麻黄碱。犯罪增加，而瘾君子们在家庭实验室熬制成批毒品时由于对化学品处置笨拙常常会引发火灾，威胁整个社区的安全。
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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.
约克自己的母亲曾经吸毒成瘾，47岁自杀身亡，现在吸毒贩毒的场景就在她自己的街上展开，约克看着心中毛骨悚然。"我们可以闻到毒品的气味，看到妄想狂，"她说。"有一天，我见到拉肖恩站在屋顶上扫走‘绿色小矮人’。"孩子在草地里发现了毒品注射器和吸毒用的烟枪。拉肖恩的家里传来枪声。
"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.
"我们感到极度恐惧，"约克说。有一个星期六，她和布鲁克林看到一个家伙开着黑色敞篷小货车猛撞拉肖恩的汽车，试图将它推到湿地里去。"还我钱!"他大喊着。
"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.
"紧接着，"约克回忆道，"那个家伙拿着棒球球棒向我丈夫冲了过来。"还有一天夜里，她从窗户望出去看到警察从她的鱼塘上面跳过。就这样。
