Daniel Chong , 25 , drank his own urine to survive and even wrote a farewell note to his mother before authorities discovered him severely dehydrated after a 2012 drug raid in San Diego . ` ` I was screaming . I was completely insane , '' he tells station . College student Daniel Chong was detained after a DEA raid at a friend 's house in 2012 . He was left in a cell for five days without food or water and lost 20 pounds , attorney says . He has since returned to university to earn an economics degree , attorney says .
` ` I was screaming . I was completely insane , '' he tells station . College student Daniel Chong was detained after a DEA raid at a friend 's house in 2012 . He was left in a cell for five days without food or water and lost 20 pounds , attorney says . He has since returned to university to earn an economics degree , attorney says .