Timothy Leary, a psychologist at Harvard University, was one of the best-known workers in the field, but it was also he who was widely blamed for discrediting it, by his unconventional research methods and his lax handling of drugs.

哈佛大学的心理学家蒂莫西？利瑞（Timothy Leary）就是该领域最为知名的人士之一，不他也因为其非传统的研究方法和他对对物不严格的处理而让这个物声名狼藉，进而广受诟病。

Many more will have genetic variants that affect how their body processes some medicines.

更多的人会有变异基因，而这会影响他们的身体处理物的方式。

Our job has changed completely in the last seven to 10 years, said Jan Rader, the fire chief of Huntington, W.Va., in January, one day after her department was called to three overdose deaths.

“在去的七到十年里，我们的工作完全变了，”1月份，华盛顿州亨廷顿的消防队长简·雷德说到，就在前一天，在她的部门曾三次被召集起来处理物量致死案件。

In other cases, one substance effects how the body processes another, like how it is absorbed, metabolized, or transported around the body.

另一类则是一种物质会影响身体对另一种物的处理方式，例如它的吸收、新陈代谢或者被运送到身体各处的方式等。

Heating up urine kills germs, but has no effect on chemicals like drugs that pass through our bodies.

给尿虽然能杀死细菌，但却对化学物质（比如经人体处理的物）没有效果。

Genetics, age, diet, disease, and even pregnancy influence the body's efficiency of processing medicine.

遗传、年龄、饮食、疾病甚至怀孕都会影响身体处理物的效率。

So the people that make the drugs that worked for the way the product used to be dealt with, the problem used to be dealt with, they're not as happy because there's been a whole new system that's been developed.

所以那制造原来有效物的人， 因为原来的物是用来处理旧问题的，他们现在不那么高兴了， 因为整个系统都已经改变了。

On average, the system removed more than two-thirds of both pain relievers and more than 90 percent of the blood-sugar medicine. It worked even better against the estrogen-treatment drug, removing 97 percent!

该系统平均去除了两种止痛中超三分之二的成分，以及超90%的血糖控制物。在处理雌激素治疗物方面，它的表现更为出色，去除了97%的物成分！

When somebody wanted antibiotics and I didn't want to give it to them, man, it was almost harder than when somebody was really prying you for opioids.

当有人要求抗生素而我不愿开给他们时，那种情况几乎比有人拼命向你索要阿片类物还要难处理。

And then the null hypothesis says no, your mean with the drug's going to be the same thing as the population mean, it has no effect.

然后原假设说， 不，你的物处理后的均值将会和总体均值一样， 它没有效果。

Each one is supposed to have a yellow bucket to dispose of the chemo so nobody else has to touch it.

每个人都应该有一个黄色的桶来处理化疗物，这样别人就不用接触了。

One of those products is Deterra drug disposal pouches, which apparently contain activated carbon and cost about $4 each.

其中一款产品是Deterra物处理袋，据称含有活性炭， 每只售价约4美元。

That's because how they process medicine changes quickly, as do their bodies. For instance, the level of liver enzymes that neutralize medication highly fluctuates during infancy and childhood.

这是因为他们处理物的方式变化很快，就像他们的身体一样。例如，中和物作用的肝酶水平在婴儿期和儿童期波动很大。

The researchers concluded from that that the MC1R gene also influences how we process painkillers, drugs and alcohol.

研究人员由此得出结论，MC1R基因还影响着我们对止痛、物和酒精的处理方式。

That's because how they process medicine changes quickly, as do their bodies.

这是因为随着身体快速成长，他们对物的处理方式也在迅速变化。

This might be news to people, but unlike most drugs, the FDA lists opioids on its flush list for disposal, which is bad news for Deterra, but another huge win for the toilet, the greatest invention in human history.

这可能是新闻，但与大多数物不同，FDA将阿片类物列入了冲洗处理清单，这对Deterra来说是个坏消息，但对马桶——人类历史上最伟大的发明——又是一个巨大的胜利。

Finding important medicine By dealing with the data, AI can find new medicine for different diseases.

寻找重要的物 通处理数据，人工智能可以为不同的疾病找到新的物。

And that's just one of many complicating factors. Genetics, age, diet, disease, and even pregnancy influence the body's efficiency of processing medicine.

这只是众多复杂因素之一。基因、年龄、饮食、疾病，甚至怀孕都会影响身体处理物的效率。