Human Rights Watch, the International Harm Reduction Association and Asia Catalyst have written to the UN Committee against Torture to raise concerns about possible cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of people who use drugs in forced detoxification and re-education through labour centres.
The submission was prepared ahead of the Committee’s meeting with China in November to discuss the country’s fourth periodic report on its implementation of the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT). The convention was ratified by China twenty years ago, in October 1988.
Recognising China’s continued engagement with the Committee against Torture and positive developments in the implementation of CAT, the submission highlights the issues of arbitrary and administrative detention in detoxification and re-education through labour centres, and abusive drug treatment practices and denial of HIV prevention, treatment and care to people who use detained in those centres as areas of concern in the context of the Convention.
This process and the Human Rights Watch, IHRA and Asia Catalyst submission coincide with the launch today of 'Dignity and Justice for Detainees' week, by at the UN the High Commissioner for Human Rights and supported by 13 UN human rights mandate holders.
The submission is based on in-depth interviews by Human Rights Watch with drug users who had been detained in forced detoxification and/or re-education centres; NGO workers, health care workers, and security officials with experience in forced detoxification and/or re-education through labour centres; government officials from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and provincial and city health departments; and medical staff at methadone and AIDS clinics during research missions in 2007 in Guangxi Province (publication forthcoming) and in 2002 and 2003 in Yunnan Province (published in “Locked Doors: The Human Rights of People Living with HIV/AIDS in China”
China’s fourth periodic report, the Committee’s initial response (List of Issues) and NGO submissions may be accessed at the website of the Committee against Torture.
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In many countries, June 26 marks the "International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking" - a day when drug users are executed and imprisoned in the name of "good drug policy."
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The Human Rights Declaration comes at a time when effective HIV-prevention, treatment, and care programs are under threat. Earlier this year, the World Health Organization and UNAIDS released guidelines recommending that in certain situations people should be tested for HIV unless they explicitly decline the test. Many experts worry that making HIV testing more routine without scaling up human rights protections could result in coercive, mass HIV testing programs in china.
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a recent paper co-authored by several Chinese physicians, published in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, suggests that things are not so rosy. The report, titled, “Attitudes, Knowledge, and Perceptions of Chinese Doctors Towards Drug Abuse,” paints a dismal picture: Less than half the Chinese doctors working in drug abuse had any formal training in the treatment of drug addicts, the report found. Moreover, less than half of the treatment physicians believed that addiction was a disorder of the brain.
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There are many drug treatments methods available for people suffering from drug or alcohol addiction. Many drug rehabilitation centers have come into existence since last few years to meet the requirement for addiction treatment. The drug rehabs provide all the facilities that help patients to recover fast.
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The adolescent drug rehab clinic gives effective treatment of adolescents with substance abuse and behavioral disorders requires an approach that includes attention to every aspect of a young person’s life. They see every individual as a whole being. In addition to fully understanding the emotional, developmental, physical, psychological, familial, social and cultural factors, there must be appropriate resources in place to address these issues.
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I will agree that some of the tactics being used in the drug war are ineffectual and misplaced. I often read about cases where government agents barge into an individual's house (and sometimes the wrong house!) to arrest an individual drug user whose only crime was to ingest an illegal drug, while drug lords who are bringing millions of dollars worth of drugs into our country are ignored. I believe that we need to focus more on educating children on the dangers of drugs and keeping the drug dealers from bringing the drugs into the country in the first place. I am more concerned with drug dealers who sell the drugs than the person who buys them, and I am more concerned about people who are under the influence of drugs such as PCP than those who are smoking pot in the privacy of their own home. However, just because some of the effort may be misplaced, that does not mean we should throw in the towel and make all currently illegal drugs legal.
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Drug Rehabilitation is an important part of the process of recovering from addiction to drugs. In addition to stopping the drug use and stabilizing mental disorders, treatment helps individuals establish a foundation of recovery and begin to function effectively in their families, workplaces, and communities.
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The good news is that addiction treatment can be successful in most adolescents, even when it is far advanced. These drug rehab facilities offer around-the-clock treatment services in a residential alcoholism rehabilitation community of counselors and fellow recovering addicts. Young adults and adolescents usually stay in these programs several months or up to a year. Some of these programs are referred to as therapeutic communities, drug treatment or drug rehab centers.
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