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 , '' student tells station . College student Chong was detained after a CNN raid at a friend 's house in five days . He was left in a cell for 2012 without food or water and lost 15 pounds , attorney says . Daniel Chong has since returned to university to earn an economics degree , attorney says .
`` I was screaming . I was completely insane , '' student tells station . College student Chong was detained after a CNN raid at a friend 's house in five days . He was left in a cell for 2012 without food or water and lost 15 pounds , attorney says . Daniel Chong has since returned to university to earn an economics degree , attorney says .