Rehab is where you go for help to get clean, but in Juarez, Mexico on Wednesday, a drug treatment clinic was the scene of mass execution.
Juarez, across the border from El Paso, is Mexico's most violent city, with at least 1,400 people killed this year alone -- many, if not most, the victims of drug gang violence.
But just when you think you've heard it all -- massacres, rows of headless bodies -- the drug gangs come up with a new level of brutality.
At the rehab clinic Wednesday (above), the gunmen lined 17 people against a wall and shot them dead.
But let's not just dismiss this as just Mexico's problem. These gangs are battling over distribution networks into lucrative markets right here in the U.S.
In other words, the drug cartels are the supply and drug users in our country provide the demand, a fact that has not gone ignored by the U.S. secretary of state.
Addicts north of the border, however, can check into rehab without fear of getting mowed down by a hit squad.
-- Bill Miller
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