Summary
Hundreds of people were rescued from the drug rehabilitation shelter by the police in Western Mexico. According to the attorney, people were forced to live in an overcrowding and fed in a subhuman and inappropriate way, moreover women and children who showed signs of abuse were found. The police detained eleven people under the guilty of maltreatments and abuses. Authorities said they were trying to make rehabilitations to treat patient with dignity.
Opinion
In Mexico, it is legal to possess a small amount of drug as an individual in the first place, and the Mexican government legislated this law under an intention that it’s better to spend the limited budget on measures of drug cartels. But one of reasons of an expansion of them is poverty, and the situation of it is worsening because the government doesn’t take enough actions to this situation. It is necessary to go ahead with an improvement of drug rehabilitation shelters of course, but I believe the government should take actions to improve the poverty fundamentally.