Vietnamese drug addicts escape from detoxification center again

Dozens of drug addicts on Sunday broke out of a detoxification center in Vietnam's southern Dong Nai province, local media reported.

Hundreds of drug addicts at the Dong Nai Drug Detoxification Center in Xuan Loc District on Sunday morning damaged its assets, and dozens ran out of the center, of whom over 20 were forced to come back by early Sunday afternoon, online newspaper VnExpress reported.

On Oct. 23, over 500 addicts broke out of the center, walked to the nearby National Road 1, and damaged properties of some roadside residential houses.

Late last month, the provincial Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs denied rumors that the addicts protested against the center's overloading or poor living conditions there.

The center currently houses nearly 1,500 addicts, most of them are ex-convicts and have AIDS, tuberculosis or mental illness. Enditem