Despite decades of research showing the harmfulness of coercive rehab for addiction, these abusive, tough-love programs refuse to go away.
On Wednesday, TIME.com reported on the phenomenon of "blood cashews," nuts produced for export in Vietnamese drug-rehabilitation programs where addicts are forced to perform "labor therapy," such as sewing clothes, making bricks or, most commonly, shelling cashews.
Last Sunday, the New York Times described Russia's harsh new treatment camps, where addicts are locked up for as long as a month in "quarantine rooms" to endure withdrawal.
And last week a lawsuit was refiled against a Utah-based school for teens with drug or behavioral problems, with 350 former students alleging that the school engaged in abusive disciplinary tactics like locking students in outdoor dog cages overnight.
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You can take that same mentality to the prison system. It doesn't work there either.
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