奧多姆服用成分不明的"偉哥"或致命

　　The NBA star is said to have suffered a stroke after ingesting a mix of cocaine and herbal Viagra. A doctor analyzes what effects mixing those drugs can have on the brain and body.

　　據報導，NBA球星因攝取可卡因和草藥偉哥的混雜物後引發中風。大夫正在剖析這些藥物混雜後對大腦和身材的影響。

　　Lamar Odom, NBA star and ex-husband of reality TV fixture Khloe Kardashian, was rushed to the hospital yesterday after losing consciousness at a Nevada brothel. Breaking updates indicate he may have suffered from one or more strokes

　　奧多姆——NBA有名球星，同時也是電視真人秀演員科勒·卡戴珊的前夫，昨天在內華達州一家倡寮落空意識後被送往病院。賡續更新的消息前哨表現，他大概已中風兩三次。

　　According to those at the brothel with him, he had been taking large quantities of "herbal Viagra." It is also being reported that he was found to have a substantial amount of cocaine in his system, though no illegal drugs were found near him at the time.

　　據在場的倡寮裏的人表現，他服用了大批"草藥偉哥"，也有報導說，他體內被發明有大批可卡因，固然其時現場沒有這種不法藥物。

　　It is difficult to know with certainty exactly what was in the supplements Odom was ingesting. Unfortunately, even Odom himself may not have had much idea what it was he was taking so much of. If the reports of cocaine use bear out, the combination may have been deadly.

　　如今還難以肯定奧多姆打針的藥物中另有甚麽身分。不幸的是，就連奧多姆本人也大概不曉得他吃了那末多的藥物究竟是甚麽。假如關於可卡因的申報被證明，那可卡因和酒精混雜的成果多是致命的。

　　Unlike prescription medications, herbal supplements are not regulated for safety and efficacy by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Despite the assumptions many make about supposedly natural alternatives to pharmaceutical products, they may contain dangerous quantities of the active ingredients found in the plants from which they are derived. Alternatively, they may contain ingredients totally different from what's on the label, or no active ingredients whatsoever. This year, the Attorney General of New York issued cease and desist letters to several major retailers after DNA analysis showed that supplements being sold supposedly with ingredients like valerian or St. John's wort instead were either unrecognizable or came from totally different plants.

　　不像處方藥，草藥添加劑的平安性和有用性不受食物和藥物治理局(FDA)羈系。不管是民眾料想的自然替換藥物或醫學合成藥，它們都多是有毒的，由於它們的植物提取物中的活性身分可能是有毒性的。大概，它們的所含身分大概和藥物標簽上的完整分歧，或無任何活性身分。本年，紐約州總審查長向幾大零售商發出了停售文件，因DNA剖析註解，添加劑的身分大概多含有纈草和聖約翰草等身分，這些身分有的沒法被檢測，有的大概提取自完整分歧的植物。