Abstract

The number of drug users has grown rapidly in China's Yunnan Province since the 1980s, causing a chain of social problems including the spread of AIDS. Realizing the enormity of the problem, the Yunnan Provincial government and the Communist Party of China called on the public to mobilize all available resources. The drug rehabilitation and AIDS prevention programs conducted by Yunnan's Christian community are highly valued; evidence available to date suggests that experiments in Christian Spiritual Therapy for drug rehabilitation have had higher success rates than other approaches. Christian rehabilitation therapy draws on the strength of religious belief to help create a “reborn” individual.

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