Rehab isn’t for sissies

Rehab isn’t for sissies

Omaha World-Herald: In China, “drug rehabilitation” doesn’t deserve the name, according to a recent New York Times article.

The authoritarian Chinese government apparently allows its police forces to send anyone caught with drugs to one of the country’s compulsory drug rehabilitation centers. No trial, no judge, no defense.

The minimum stay is two years, and the rehab is physical abuse and forced labor — no drug treatment involved.

China’s Anti-Drug Law of 2008 requires that addicts be sent to detox facilities with professional staffs. Then patients are supposed to be released to (nonexistent) community-based rehabilitation centers for follow-up. Some joke.

“Chinese drug rehabilitation” is an oxymoron doing no one any good except the police who collect money by renting their drug prisoners to farms and factories.