Humiliation and Abuses in Drug “Treatment” Centers in Puerto Rico

This report presents testimonies from participants of drug “treatment” services for psychoactive drug use disorders in Puerto Rico that document the persistence of approaches based on a false premise that this condition is the result of pathological personalities and individual moral deficiencies, requiring the use of confrontational and degrading processes of re-socialization. The authors cite official statistics that corroborate the predominance of this type of programs among the meager supply of treatment services for problematic drug use available in the island.

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