China Turns Drug Rehab Into a Punishing Ordeal – China News

www.nytimes.com — Story about China's drug rehab centers. According to the accounts of one first-time drug user: The minimum stay is two years, and life is an unremitting gantlet of physical abuse and forced labor without any drug treatment, according to former inmates and substance abuse professionals.

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