BALTIMORE -
Michael, a drug addict at the Maryland Detention Center in
Baltimore, says he has found his salvation--in a needle. Michael
is one of about 30 inmates participating in the first jail-based
acupuncture detox-therapy program in the country.
Ancient Medicine Meets Modern Drug
Problems
BALTIMORE - Meditation music hums through the single-wide trailer
as 25 men in maroon uniforms, their names scrawled on plastic
identification bracelets, sit shoulder-to-shoulder in a cramped
circle. But this is
no church-basement Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. These men are
sitting in a worn annex nestled in a sea of chain-link fences and
barbed wire, and they have tiny copper needles sticking out from
the edges of their ears.
