Harsh Treatment Offered in Russia's "City Without Drugs"

A treatment program in Russia has found many critics, as well as supporters.  It involves kidnapping, imprisonment, and forcing participants to undergo withdrawal from narcotics without medication and while handcuffed to their beds.  

“Is it wrong to rescue a drowning person by pulling their hair?” asked Yevgeny Malenkin, a founder of City Without Drugs, summing up the public view. “If people say it is cruel and inhumane, let them teach us how to do it otherwise.”

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/03/world/europe/03russia.html?_r=1