In the name of treatment: ending abuses in compulsory drug detention centers.

The authors reflect on the inhumane treatment of drug users who were detained to compulsory drug detention centers mainly in China and Malaysia. They relate that among the documented cruelty in those centers include sexual assault, severe beatings, and forced testing for HIV. They also discuss set of principles by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in 2010 on international standards for drug users' treatment.