(16 Nov 2001)

1. Wide shot of drug rehabilitation centre yard with inmates, dressed in blue-and-white-striped uniforms, marching and signing anti-drug song
2. Policeman and nurse watching prisoners
3. Group of inmates marching and singing
4. Inmates shadows moving in march rhythm
5. Wide shot of men marching and singing in yard
6. Close-up of face of prisoner
7. Police guard on watch
8. Barred window of detention center
9. Interior of classroom with policeman teaching prisoners
10. Blackboard
11. Policeman seated at desk and backs of prisoners
12. Close-up of prisoners' faces
13. Prisoner's bunk
14. Wide of bunks behind bars
15. Wide shot of news conference
16. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Tao Jin, Police officer
"Beijing has achieved great success in its anti-narcotics work. However, as we are affected by the international narcotics tide, the drug problem in China cannot be solved in a short time."
17. Tilt up from shadows of prisoners walking in courtyard to prisoners walking past camera
18. Hand of female inmate writing calligraphy - tilts up to face
19. Close-up of female inmate's hand painting flower
20. Face of flower painter - tilts down to Chinese character "plum blossom"
21. Inmates walking down hallway
23. Exterior pan of grassy courtyard to prisoners seated on benches speaking with press
24. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Unidentified prisoner (with back to camera)
"The biggest achievement is that now I've come back to live like a man. Before I was not a man."
25. Reporter taking notes
26. Prisoners and journalists walking
27. Three prisoners walking away after speaking with press
28. Wide shot of prisoners playing basketball, zoom in

STORYLINE:

Officials at Beijing's only drug rehabilitation centre have hailed the strict, military regime it promotes as an overwhelming success.

In a sign that China is beginning to treat its worsening drug problem with increasing openness, journalists were taken on a tour of the Beijing Police Compulsory Drug Detoxification Centre on the outskirts of Beijing on Thursday.

Every morning 600 inmates gather in the yard in their striped cotton uniforms for marching drills, exercise and songs to inspire hope in their fight against drug dependency.

Most of these men and women are heroin addicts, sent to the centre by the government for three to six months of treatment.

In a somewhat draconian approach to drugs, traffickers caught in China are often executed, whilst users can be packed off to detox centres or labour camps without passing through the courts.

In Beijing, inmates - or their families - have to pay the seven-thousand Chinese yuan (847 US dollars) charge for the treatment they receive.

Heavily-barred windows seal the crowded dormitories where inmates spend the night.

More than a hundred police work as guards and instructors in the centre, teaching addicts in simple classrooms the fundamentals of family values and reminding them of the shame that drug use has brought upon their families.

At a news conference on Thursday, officials claimed their treatment was successful but that the root cause of addiction - drug trafficking - remained a growing threat.

Since the centre opened in 1995, some seven-thousand drug addicts have been treated there.

Western and traditional Chinese medicines are used to help break the physical addition with equal doses of exercise, labour and social education.


Police in Beijing seized more than 33 kilograms (73 pounds) of heroin and made 548 drug arrests over the past seven months.

Drug addiction among women is frequently supported through prostitution.





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