Drug Rehabs offer More Harm than Help

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Khmer Times/Igor Kossov

PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – When police brought Manly to his room in the Mundoul Orkas Knhom drug rehab center outside Phnom Penh, he saw blood on the wall.

The blood belonged to another detainee who had disobeyed the guards. For the next three months, Manly was forced to exercise in the sun, crawl along sharp rocks, kneel in the bathroom and serve wealthier detainees. He left in worse shape than he was when he went in – and quickly resumed his methamphetamine habit.

“It was miserable,” said Manly, who did not want his real name used. “They put us in slave-like conditions.”

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