Drug Detention Centers Offer Torture, Not Treatment: Human Rights Watch Study

Drug detention centers offer torture, not treatment: Human Rights Watch study

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New York, July 25 (ANI): Hundreds of thousands of people identified as drug users in China and across Southeast Asia are held without due process in centers where they may be subjected to torture, and physical and sexual violence in the name of …
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Is it a hospital? Definition of drug treatment center debated in Lebanon Township

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The applicant, GenPsych, hopes to lease an existing 9000-square foot building on the corner of Trimmer Road and Route 513 for a 13-bed substance abuse treatment center. Though GenPsych already maintains out-patient facilities in Brick, Bridgewater, …
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Heroin use on the rise in suburban areas

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With addicts desperate for a cheaper high than prescription drugs or seeking a more powerful fix, experts are seeing heroin addiction treatment admissions, overdoses and fatalities rising in nearly every region, including areas where the drug has …
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August, Human Rights Watch expressed the view that the Government and the UN were not hidden detention centers, such as underground rooms, disused classrooms or shipping containers. More than half alleged that they were subjected to ill-treatment, which in some cases amounted to torture. be on offer. … Read Here

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"Human Rights Watch has not reached conclusions about CIA operations in Eastern Europe," it said. was no possibility for any outside body to monitor whether the treatment of prisoners met international human rights that Afghanistan is now the hub of the global network of detention centers, with as … Read Here

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Vietnam are usually not detained, arrested or otherwise punished. However, the government routinely sends women who engage in prostitution within the country to "rehabilitation" detention centers that provide medical treatment A new report by Human Rights Watch Anti-retroviral drug treatment was … Access This Document

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Standards for detention centers have not been updated in 13 years, and the state stopped The home would not offer specialized treatment programs, such as drug and alcohol treatment or sex-offender programs. for relief, including Stacey Torrance, whose case was championed by Human Rights Watch … Read Document

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