This Thai Monastery Helps People Fight Addiction in the Strangest Way Possible

The thousands of temples across Thailand are all special in their own ways. One Buddhist temple is making waves not for its architecture or its décor but for an entirely different feature: its world-famous drug rehabilitation program.
In the province of Saraburi, 87 miles outside of Bangkok, is the temple of Wat Thamkrabok. This Buddhist temple, built by the approximately 100 monks and 15 nuns that reside here, is also the home of a drug rehabilitation center that helps addicts detox and (hopefully) leave the temple with no intention of relapsing.
Patients come for a week-long course that requires participants to stay for the entirety of the program. Upon arrival, patients partake in a ceremony known as Sajja, in which they vow to never again use addictive substances again for the rest of their lives. The first five days are the most difficult, and patients purge their bodies of any toxins with herbal medicine in liquid form (taken once daily) and in pill form (taken twice daily as needed). This, in combination with a daily steam bath, is supposed to further cleanse patients of whatever harmful substances they have in their bodies.