Thousands of people identified as drug users in Vietnam and across Southeast Asia are being held without due process in centers where they may be subjected to torture, and physical/sexual violence in the designation of treatment. In many centers, drug users are held alongside waifs, people with psycho-gregarious disabilities, and street children, and are coerced to practice military drills, chant slogans, and work as therapy. Drug detention centers that hold drug users for long periods of time without providing evidence-predicated treatment infringe these standards and are widely believed to be ineffective. In Vietnam, “labor therapy” is stipulated as a component of drug treatment by law, and drug detention centers are diminutive more than
