Judicial authorities in China have set up 62 provincial or city-level rehabilitation centers and treated more than 22,000 drug users in these centers since their establishment, according to the Ministry of Justice.

The centers were exploring ways to help drug addicts break their habits, recover from psychological or mental problems and better integrate themselves back into society, said Chen Xunqiu, vice minister of Justice, at a national meeting on the building and management of rehabilitation centers on September 26.

Judicial authorities in China have established 225 rehabilitation centers across the country.

The number of registered Chinese drug users neared 1.44 million as of June this year, according statistics from the Ministry of Public Security.

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