Inside Mexico's Clandestine Drug Treatment Centers

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🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Across Mexico, clandestine treatment centers for drug addiction – locally referred to as anexos – have been accused of unethical therapeutic practices and even patient abuse. But among Mexico’s working poor, in the absence of government support, they provide hope and protection from the country’s catastrophic drug war. Anthropologist Angela Garcia spent a decade studying anexos, getting to know the people who run them and families that have come to rely on them. She chronicles their stories and her own reflections in her new book, “The Way That Leads Among The Lost: Life, Death, and Hope In Mexico City’s Anexos.” Guests: Angela Garcia, associate professor of anthropology, Stanford; author of the new book “The Way That Leads Among The Lost: Life, Death, and Hope In Mexico City’s Anexos” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.1	Makeshift addiction treatment centers are widespread in Mexico, called Annexos.
1:09.7	Their methods have been described as harsh, violent, even abusive.
1:13.6	But the centers have also been described as a refuge by some of the parents who would rather place us on our daughter there than have them become a victim of a deadly drug war.
1:22.6	Stanford anthropologist Angela Garcia spent years studying these illegal and informal addiction treatment centers in Mexico City and also discovered them in California, from Riverside to the Bay Area.
1:35.5	We'll find out what the existence of Annexos and the methods they use say about the brutal realities of Mexico's drug war.
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1:44.9	Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim.
1:47.8	Stanford anthropologist Angela Garcia writes in her new book called The Way That Leads
1:53.1	Among the Lost. I didn't go to Mexico to study the drug war. As an anthropologist, I had
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