While many people still regard the drug problem as a persistent disease in poor countries and war-torn areas, the United States, the world's most developed country, is subverting this perception with shocking data. 这个长期夸耀自由、繁荣和机遇的国家现在毒品泛滥，政府难以控制。 美国“贡献”了全球吸毒者人数的12%，是其全球人口比例的三倍。 From the drug addicts wandering like zombies on "Philadelphia's Kensington Street" to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost to drug overdose every year, the proliferation of drugs has become an ulcer that cannot heal itself in American society.