VOA常速英语:US Sees Growing Problem With Prescription Drug Abuse

短语讲解：

1. At the Malibu Beach Recovery Center, outside Los Angeles, residents learn yoga and other coping skills to deal with anxiety, stress and chronic pain.

deal with与...交涉,交易;应付;处理
例句：He has learnt to deal properly with all kinds of complicated situations.
他已学会恰当地应付各种复杂局面。

2. Yoga teacher Shannon Scott was once hooked herself on the anti-anxiety pill Xanax and the painkiller Vicodin.

be hooked on沉溺于，对…入了迷
例句：Mary is hooked on football.
玛丽特别喜欢足球。

3. “Vicodin was a stimulant for me. So I also used Vicodin as something to get my engine going and carry me through the days, and my Xanax would balance me out and bring me down and relax me. But one was to calm me down and the other was to give me the energy to move forward,” said Scott.

balance out收支平衡；被抵消；使补偿;相等，不相上下，比得上
例句：The experience of our side and the youthful determination of the other balance each other out.
我方经验丰富，对方年轻气盛决心大，两者不相上下。
bring down击败…; 使(某物或某人)掉下〔倒下〕
例句：In American football, you have to try to bring down your opponent.
在美式橄榄球赛中, 你必须设法把对手弄倒在地。
calm down（使）平静，镇静，安静
例句：She tried to calm him down.
她设法使他平静下来。

4. U.S. health officials say that poisoning was a major cause of death in 2008, and that nearly 9 of 10 poisonings were caused by drugs. The so-called opioid painkillers - morphine, hydrocodone and oxycodone - were involved in more than 40 percent of drug poisonings in 2008.

involve in使参与〔陷入, 牵扯到〕
例句：She was involved in working out a puzzle.
她在聚精会神地解一道难题。

5. And more and more over the years we began to see people being addicted to prescription drugs.

be addicted to沉迷于
例句：He was addicted to heroin at the age of 17.
他17岁的时候对海洛因上了瘾。

6. Specialized drug courts work with the addicts to get them into counseling and rehabilitation.

get into陷入; 养成
例句：This mistake may get him into difficulties.
这一错误将使他陷入困境。

7. I'm talking about somebody's grandmother in Fresno dying from oxycodone, dying from hydrocodone, dying from morphine,” said Adams.

die from死于
例句：In a severe winter, wild animals can die from lack of food.
在寒冷的冬天, 野兽可能因为缺乏食物而饿死。

8. At the Malibu Beach Recovery Center, the addicted get off drugs, but it's not easy.

get off吸毒麻醉，(服用毒品后)(使)感到飘飘然，感到(药力)发作；因…而兴奋
例句：He gets off on loud music, but I don't.
他一听到喧闹的音乐就兴奋，而我则不然。

9. “In the case of pain pills, the body has stopped producing its natural defenses to pain, and they just have to have more and more and more and more, and finally there's nothing else to take,” said Adams.

in the case of至于…, 在……的情况下, 就…来说, 就……而言, 对……而言
例句：It's the kind of story we think of as myth. But in the case of Lincoln, the story is true.
我们把这类故事视为神话, 但就林肯来说, 这故事却是真实的。