For drug addicts, the need to feed the addiction takes priority over everything else.

对于吸毒者来说满足毒瘾胜过一切。

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Perhaps the prime reason is that drug addicts may commit crimes when they are in short of money.

或许最主要的原因是有毒瘾的人在缺钱的时候可能会犯罪。

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An historical explanation may be more likely: Brighton was one of the first places to acquire a drug-dependency unit in the 1960s, perhaps establishing a reputation as a good place for addicts.

以历史的渊源来解释更有可能：布莱顿是六十年代最早认可药物依赖的地区之一，这可能为它是吸毒者的好地方建立了名声。

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After all, 80% of the drug addicts on the streets of Kunming know me.

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Built in 1885 as the Northern Michigan Asylum, the hospital treated the mentally ill, drug addicts and the elderly before finally ceasing operations in 1989.

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In 1993, Congress passed the Brady Handgun Violence Protection Act, which created a national background-check system and a list of people forbidden to own a gun: felons, the mentally ill, persons who committed a domestic-violence misdemeanor, drug addicts and the dishonorably discharged.

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