New technologies to help save drug users

China will adopt advanced technologies and new methods to help some foreigners free themselves of drug addictions, a senior Ministry of Justice official said.

Hundreds of foreign drug addicts have been undergoing compulsory detox in rehabilitation centers in China, Cao Xuejun, head of the ministry's Drug Rehabilitation Administration Department, said in an interview last week.

"In addition to medical and physical therapy, we are expanding and updating measures, including a virtual reality drug addiction assessment and correction system and transcranial magnetic stimulation technologies to help them successfully abandon the drugs," he said.