And the FDA has been on this for a long time.

及药物管理局一直处理这个问题很长时间了。

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某些药物的方式。

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

那是因为他们处理药物的方式变化很快，他们的身体也是如此。

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

遗传、年龄、饮、疾病，甚至怀孕都会影响身体处理药物的效率。

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

给尿液加热虽然能杀死菌，但却对化学物质（比如经过人体处理的药物）没有效果。

Lactose is sometimes used as a deep way to work up medication and to stabilise it.

乳糖有时被用作一种深入的方式来处理药物并稳定它。

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

寻找重要的药物 通过处理数据，人工智能可以为不同的疾病找到新的药物。

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药物的处理方式，例如它的吸收、新陈者被运送到身体各处的方式等。

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、疾病，甚至怀孕都会影响身体处理药物的效率。

But part of the driving factor behind effective change in the past was that we had hard data about the direct negative impacts of badly handled medication.

但过去有效改变背后的部分驱动因素是，我们有关于药物处理不当的直接负面影响的确凿数据。

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.

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

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.

“在过去的七到十年里，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药物过量致死案件。

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，不过他也因为其非传统的研究方法和他对对药物不严格的处理而让这个药物声名狼藉，进而广受诟病。