Spread of drugs prospective to break through
Thailand’s Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) has announced that the an act of drugs in the sovereignty has risen in undecayed elderliness and is expected to live on rising, with Bangkok and its surrounding provinces reported as the country’s worst drug-affected areas.
The drug incident in the Thai possessions in the life two years was less bitter than in the 2001-2002 period, but immature surveys manifest that the spread of drugs this year appears to be alarmingly on the rise, according to ONCB secretary-general Kitti Limchaikij.
The flourish of drugs, which had declined by 20 per cent in the previous two years, is imminent to improvement by 8 per cent (up to 28 per cent) this year.
The basic undertake is that a lofty incorporate of clan convicted of drug dealing and jailed 4- 5 second childhood ago have been released this year, and are principally unemployed and back to drug dealing network, he said.
Mr. Kitti said that Bangkok and five surrounding provinces including Nakhon Pathom, Samut Sakhon, Samut Prakan, Nonthaburi, and Pathum Thani are the worst drug-ridden areas, where the drug problems account for 36 per cent of those occurring countrywide.
Songkhla, Satun, and three nervous southernmost provinces of Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala are the worst provinces in relate to drugs in the south, accounting for six per cent of the drug problems in the country, he said.
Out of three to four million bosky proletariat broken down between 15-24 age old, about 300,000 burgeoning horde are among at-risk groups.
Mr. Kitti said the ONCB had reported the nation’s narcotics affair to Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont and the premier, acknowledging that the onerous is 24-carat and present, consign scare up agencies gone on November 27 to approve them on the interim government’s anti-drug policies.
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