Phuket ramps up offensive against drugs delivered by boat, youth drug use in spotlight

By The Phuket News

 

Vice Governor Supoj Rotreuang Na Nongkhai at the meeting at Phuket Provincial Hall on Friday (June 28). Photo: PR Dept

 

PHUKET: Drugs delivered to Phuket by boat and the rising incidence of drug use by youths have become the latest priorities for officials to target in the ongoing anti-drugs campaign.

 

Vice Governor Supoj Rotreuang Na Nongkhai delivered the news at a meeting at Phuket Provincial Hall late Friday afternoon (June 28).

 

The meeting was held to review the effectiveness of the efforts by law-enforcement authorities on the island in combatting the spread of drugs across the island in accordance with the formal provincial plan to prevent and suppress the use of drugs – and rehabilitate drug users – in Phuket.

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They have to decide what they want the most, rehabilitation or punishment, for you can't do both. Either treat addiction as a medical issue (been classified a disease for a long time) or open up one of the islands as a penal colony cause they're running out of room in the prisons. The drug dealers would opt for more prisons and Duterte like laws for it's making them rich. Just look to America to see the generations of lost souls and the 100's of billions spent, all the results of failed policies and shortsighted men. 

Don’t understand how life can be so bad for some that they have to alter their brain with drugs. A worldwide problem, not just Thailand. Rich and poor alike. 

Phuket ramps up surveillance, detection and better education about illicit drugs

By The Thaiger

 

 

With increased scrutiny at the island’s northern checkpoint at Tha Chatchai, drug smugglers have been rolling out fresh ways of getting illicit drugs onto the island.

 

A meeting of the provincial government has noted that the interception of drugs in Phuket and the increasing use of illicit drugs by local youths are the major challenges for law enforcement officials. The meeting, chaired by VG Supoj Rotreuang Na Nongkhai, noted that although Tha Chatchai checkpoint was still a major location for interception, the Marine Police and Royal Thai Navy Third Area Command have been stepping up measures to identify and intercept drug shipments onto the island around the coast.

 

Regarding younger drug users, the meeting said they were continuing their co-ordination with schools with the ongoing campaign to share information about the harm caused by illicit drugs in the community – in villages and workplaces.

 

The meeting urged officials to continue combatting the influx of drugs onto the island and accelerate operations, co-ordinate with other local enforcement and rehabilitation agencies, and apply for budgets allocated for the island’s anti-drugs campaigns.

 

Source: https://thethaiger.com/news/phuket/phuket-ramps-up-surveillance-detection-and-better-education-about-illicit-drugs

 

 

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