Vietnam has launched a major police operation after almost 200 drug addicts escaped from an overcrowded state-owned rehabilitation centre.
Just over 100 of them were apprehended by Monday morning and returned to the Sóc Trăng Drug Addiction Treatment Centre but the a manhunt continues for another 97 who remain at large, the state-run Vietnam News Agency reported.
The patients broke away en masse as guards were distracted by a fight following an “internal dispute” in the facility on Saturday night.
The deputy director of the centre, Nguyễn Văn Phước, told the Vietnam News Agency that one of the addicts said he returned after he was convinced by his parents to continue his treatment at the facility.
The majority of detainees are required to immediately stop taking drugs, known as going cold turkey, despite the risk of severe withdrawal symptoms.
Last year, police in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City arrested 65 people for allegedly smuggling 50kg of drugs, some hidden in toothpaste tubes, into the country.
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Vietnam has launched a major police operation after almost 200 drug addicts escaped from an overcrowded state-owned rehabilitation centre.
Just over 100 of them were apprehended by Monday morning and returned to the Sóc Trăng Drug Addiction Treatment Centre but the a manhunt continues for another 97 who remain at large, the state-run Vietnam News Agency reported.
The patients broke away en masse as guards were distracted by a fight following an “internal dispute” in the facility on Saturday night.
The deputy director of the centre, Nguyễn Văn Phước, told the Vietnam News Agency that one of the addicts said he returned after he was convinced by his parents to continue his treatment at the facility.
The majority of detainees are required to immediately stop taking drugs, known as going cold turkey, despite the risk of severe withdrawal symptoms.
Last year, police in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City arrested 65 people for allegedly smuggling 50kg of drugs, some hidden in toothpaste tubes, into the country.
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