European Knight
08-05-2015, 01:45 PM
Drugged, tied up and locked up for six months: Inside China's drastic 'concentration rehab camp' for net-junkie youths glued to gaming and the web for six hours a day
MailOnline was allowed inside the China Young Mental Development Base
Beijing rehab centre treats teenagers like soldiers with padlocked dorms
Symptoms of internet addiction include spending six hours a day online
There are estimates that up to 24 million Chinese youths have the disorder
Staff also try to 'cure' patients of their sexuality with pro-straight classes
Every morning at 6.30am in a padlocked wing of a military-style compound in southern Beijing, a whistle sounds. It's the cue for around 50 camouflage shirt-clad young Chinese men and around five young women to get up.
They line up outside their dormitories as a drillmaster barks out a name register and a day of punishing military exercises and lectures begins.
At 9.30pm they are locked up again and it's strictly lights out. For most people sent here (some of whom have been drugged by their parents to get them behind the locked gates), this routine is repeated daily for six months.
But these people are not army cadets or prisoners. They are patients at the China Young Mental Development Base: China's toughest internet addiction rehab centre - and MailOnline was allowed inside its sterile walls.
Read more: Chinese rehab for net junkie youths glued to gaming and the web | Daily Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3184971/Drugged-tied-locked-six-months-Inside-drastic-concentration-camp-Chinese-rehab-net-junkie-youths-glued-gaming-web-six-hours-day.html)
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MailOnline was allowed inside the China Young Mental Development Base
Beijing rehab centre treats teenagers like soldiers with padlocked dorms
Symptoms of internet addiction include spending six hours a day online
There are estimates that up to 24 million Chinese youths have the disorder
Staff also try to 'cure' patients of their sexuality with pro-straight classes
Every morning at 6.30am in a padlocked wing of a military-style compound in southern Beijing, a whistle sounds. It's the cue for around 50 camouflage shirt-clad young Chinese men and around five young women to get up.
They line up outside their dormitories as a drillmaster barks out a name register and a day of punishing military exercises and lectures begins.
At 9.30pm they are locked up again and it's strictly lights out. For most people sent here (some of whom have been drugged by their parents to get them behind the locked gates), this routine is repeated daily for six months.
But these people are not army cadets or prisoners. They are patients at the China Young Mental Development Base: China's toughest internet addiction rehab centre - and MailOnline was allowed inside its sterile walls.
Read more: Chinese rehab for net junkie youths glued to gaming and the web | Daily Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3184971/Drugged-tied-locked-six-months-Inside-drastic-concentration-camp-Chinese-rehab-net-junkie-youths-glued-gaming-web-six-hours-day.html)
http://i.imgur.com/uwCZBL4.png
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/08/04/15/2B150FDE00000578-3184971-image-a-8_1438697268172.jpg