영어회화 팟캐스드 NPR Podcast 스피킹 Day 5

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HEALTH
A new drug is worsening the fentanyl crisis and complicating treatment

 

*ravage 황폐하게 하다,파괴하다

The opioid epidemic is raviging American neighborhoods.

*veterinary 수의과의

It is a veterinary sedative called xylazine. 

*in the grip of ~에 휘말린, 시달리는

*be caught in the grip of ~에 사로잡히다

So many people are caught in the grip of drug addiction.

*driver 추진 요인, 원동력

It is the drivers that get us there.

*as opposed to ~에 비해, 와는 대조적으로

Synthetic drugs become more lethal as opposed to what we've had for thousands of years.

The way drugs are being bought and sold has changed.

*address (문제·상황 등에 대해) 고심하다[다루다],  ((문제를)) 맞서다. 해결하다.

What do you think could be done to address it?

*imperative 필요한, 반드시 해야하는

So it becomes imperative to ensure that we get ahead of this 

*illicit 불법의

However, that hasn't stopped the drug dealers from mixing it in with the illicit fentanyl.

*hybrid problem 복합적인 문제

*on one hand 한편으로는 

This becomes a hybrid problem where on one hand. 

There's so much consideration of what do you do to stop drug overdoses?

*root cause 근본 원인 

So it's really important when we look at that we begin to look at root causes. 

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NPR's Scott Simon talks to Dr. Rahul Gupta, the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, about how a veterinary sedative called Xylazine is worsening the country's opioid epidemic.

 

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A new drug is worsening the fentanyl crisis and complicating treatment

A new drug is worsening the fentanyl crisis and complicating treatment