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Scene at detox center is no party

Madison – There’s nothing pretty about detox.

In Madison, that starts with the facility itself – concrete block walls, stark rooms, beat-up showers and a stash of restraints the staff keeps ready to use when necessary. Then there’s the vomit, the yelling, the drunken fighting and, in one case, the maggots crawling in the sore a man left untended on his foot.