Deep South’s Drug Problems Need New Approach: New Party

By Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer

 

Kratom bust in Satun province on Dec. 2, 2016

 

BANGKOK — The government should introduce more effective approaches including supporting local communities in the deep south to play a role in eradicating drugs problems, a newly established party said Friday.

 

Prachachart Party, which has its stronghold in the deep south, said more than half the inmates in prisons there are being detained for drugs-related charges, adding that there was a needed to introduce more diverse strategies to reduce that number.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/politics/2018/10/05/deep-souths-drug-problems-need-new-approach-new-party/

 

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Drugs aren't the problem.

Just another misdirection to easily side track. 

 

Repeated loud and often enough.

20 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

Drugs aren't the problem.

Just another misdirection to easily side track. 

 

Repeated loud and often enough.

A lot of young people are unemployed and lack social support and are therefore more likely to turn to drug trafficking for economic opportunity. The economic recession and political strife in countries bordering Thailand have exacerbated the situation. https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2016/04/05/an-inside-look-at-drug-addiction-in-thailand/

I would add political strife, faltering education system and increasing income inequality within Thailand as well.

 

The three provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat have the highest rates of drug addiction, according to the Thai military. An estimated one in five teenagers are addicts. Kratom is by far the most popular drug.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40081330

if You call kratom drugs,you can also say coffee is a drug,both are not really harmfull.

 

On 10/5/2018 at 3:29 PM, webfact said:

Deep South’s Drug Problems Need New Approach

The junta seems to have a jackboot mentality, not only to this problem, but to just about everything. And the junta leader puts on some smarmy act about how he is trying to find reconciliation in the South. Just more Pinocchio speak.