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薬物依存に20年以上悩まされた女性に関する記事です。

Sam spent more than 20 years as an addict, battling to get clean and sober. But she didn't want the methadone she was repeatedly prescribed by her local drugs service - she wanted to be abstinent. She tells Milly Chowles how she overcame a cycle of trauma and abusive relationships to beat her addictions by herself.
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My first sentence was only eight weeks, of which I served four. While I was there the children went into care for a little while. I managed to get them back when I came out, but two months later I'd been sectioned.

http://www.bbc.com/news/stories-42731383

sectionの動詞の意味に注目しました。『ジーニアス英和辞典』を引くと「（分割された）部分」「（組立て）部品」「（新聞・雑誌などの）…欄」「部門」「切断」「区間」とお馴染みの意味が記載されています。しかしイギリスでは動詞で「〈精神病患者〉を精神病院に強制収容する」を意味します。LDOCEでは“to officially force someone with a mental illness to go to a psychiatric hospital m, because they are dangerous to themselves or other people”と定義されていました。(Kiwi girl)