In China, People Are Risking Everything for a Box of Ritalin

They came for Jiang Ruiyang on Sept. 2. Ten police officers burst into the factory where he was working in north China’s Shanxi province, told him he was being detained on drugs-related charges, and marched him across the shop floor in handcuffs. The 25-year-old’s crime: buying a few boxes of Ritalin on the internet. Similar scenes have played out across China in recent months, as hundreds of