The 164 addicts fled from the city centre in the coastal city of Danang Saturday by the overwhelming guards and reload through the ports tree, said the Director of the Center Hung Nguyen Ngoc dung.
He said that the prisoners were returned or 130 were caught by the police, who has suspended their search and told relatives remaining fugitives addicts must return to the facility.
Journal of Tien Phong on Monday said hundreds of police with dogs and tear gas was been mobilised for hunting. It is said that some prisoners fled to a field of sugar cane, throwing stones, bricks and sticks to the police who used tear gas to subdue them.
Police wasn't available for comment Monday.
The Centre hosts 398 detainees, included 48 women, who are devoted to heroin or other substances.
Strict laws of Viet Nam on drug allows the Government to order drug users detained for up to two years in rehabilitation centres, many of them boot camp style structures that include forced labour and Communist "ideological education."
Relapse rates are extremely high and international human rights groups have criticized the centres as inhumane, saying addicts are essentially arbitrary prison sentences without due process and that their dependency is not properly treated.
In recent years, following an order of Government to increase the period of compulsory treatment of rehabilitation from one to two years, have been reported several large leaks.
Viet Nam says there are more than 140,000 addicts in the country, many of their users of drugs intravenously infected by HIV/AIDS.
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