Narrator: Loco quickly develops a crack addiction and falls in with the notorious Chicago street gang, the Conservative Vice Lords.
旁白：乐克很快成为一名快客瘾君子，沦落到与臭名昭著的芝加哥街头帮派为伍，——保守党副主。
Loco: I could've been a professional boxer but I choose drugs and gangbanging.
乐克：我本来会成为一名职业拳击手，但我选择了毒品和帮派生活。
Crack cocaine, it used to make me just want to rob everybody I come across, you know what I mean. I became very aggressive.
快客可卡因，它常常让我想去抢劫我遇到的每一个人，你明白我的意思。我变得非常好斗。
Narrator: Powder cocaine users tend to have lucrative jobs that enable them to fund their drug use.
旁白：可卡因粉末使用者往往都有赚钱的工作，这样他们才有财力吸食毒品。
But crack cocaine users are predominantly poor and live in the inner city.
但是快客可卡因吸食者主要是穷人，并住在市中心。

Many turn to crime to fund their habit s.
许多人转向犯罪，以满足他们的毒瘾。
Loco: I take what you got, with whatever I had, guns, knife, stick, because if I had it I would use it.
乐克：我用我的，枪、刀子、或棒子，抢劫你的东西，我有什么就用什么。
And if you didn't give me what you had you were gonna see I was gonna use it.
如果你不给我你的东西，你就要试试我怎么用它。
And that's the way I kept my habit up. I've been in the penitentiary six times.
我就是那么维持我的毒瘾的。我已经进了六次监狱。
Narrator: Loco manages to stop smoking crack just once.
旁白：只有一次，乐克想戒掉快客。
Loco: I stopped using cocaine on my own for like 18 months, I didn't have it for 18 months.
乐克：我靠自己停吸了可卡因大概18个月，我18个月没动它。
That was the best feeling in my life.
那是我生命中最好的感觉。
My mother passed away and I was going again.
我母亲去世了，于是我又开始了。
Narrator: Loco desperately wants to stop smoking crack but he's in the grip of addiction.
旁白：乐克几近绝望地想要戒掉快客，但是他被毒瘾所套住了。
Loco: If I could just stop being high today, I think I'd be the happiest man in the world, but it's not easy.
乐克：如果我现在能停止追求那种高潮感，我想我就是世界上最快乐的人，但这并不容易。
The future holds nothing for me, death or the penitentiary.
我没有未来，只有死亡或监狱。
Narrator: The United Nations World Drug Report declares there are up to 20 million cocaine users worldwide.
旁白：联合国世界毒品报告宣称全世界的可卡因吸食者达两千万。
The majority of these users snort cocaine.
其中绝大多数鼻吸可卡因。
People like the drug because it creates intense feelings of pleasure without a loss of control.
人们喜欢毒品是因为它能产生强烈的欣快感，而不至于失控。
Unlike heroin and methamphetamine, powder cocaine users don't fall into a stupor or hallucinate.
与海洛因和脱氧麻黄碱不同，可卡因粉末吸食者不会陷入昏迷或产生幻觉。
When a user snorts a line, it enters the bloodstream through the nasal membrane.
当使用者吸一口，它就会顺着鼻粘膜进入血流。
The drug races to the pleasure centers of the brain where it triggers a massive increase in dopamine, the neurotransmitter that signals euphoria.
毒品快速进入大脑的愉悦中枢，在那里触发多巴胺水平迅速升高，而后者是传导欣快感的神经递质。