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Video: Drink, drugs and mental health: Another appalling attack on a mother highlights Thailand's issues


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Sanook Thai Caption: Mum attacked for money

 

It has been a bad week for attacks by children on their parents in Thailand, notes ASEAN NOW. 

 

And a video doing the rounds of social media is going to do nothing to allay fears that the country's issues of drinking, drug taking and mental health are abating.

 

This in a country that prides itself on family values and respect for elders.  

 

Earlier in the week a drug crazed son murdered his parents with a club and a hoe and put them in a charcoal oven. 

 

But it is not just the nations' sons that are out of control.

 

In this video an out of control DAUGHTER attacked her mum as she rode a motorcycle.

 

She wanted money for booze and Ya Ba and whacked her parent on the back repeatedly while locals tried to intervene.

 

In the end she made off with her mum's handbag containing a few hundred baht leaving her stricken parent wailing uncontrollably on the tarmac. 

 

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Picture: Sanook

 

Sanook followed up on the story and found out it involved a 62 year old woman and her 28 year old daughter. They used assumed names.

 

The daughter has had severe mental health problems in the last few years and has been treated at a psychiatric hospital in Korat.

 

But she won't consistently take her meds. 

 

She has become addicted to Ya Ba and is an alcoholic. 

 

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Both mother and daughter are in different hospitals now.

 

The mum said the bag contained a little less than 200 baht, money needed to feed four other mouths in the family.

 

She didn't have enough on this occasion to help her daughter out so resisted. 

 

This incident happened in Ban Phae in Buriram in the north east of Thailand. 

 

People in the north east in particular pride themselves on their friendliness and family values. 

 

Whether such incidents are really a modern phenomena or it is just that the prevalence of mobile phones means they are soon shown to the world, remains a moot point.

 

But there is little doubt that the scourge of cheap amphetamines and booze is having a dire effect on many in society. 

 

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2 hours ago, ezzra said:

Drug's crazy most of the times, the drug problems in this country is out of control and the ease of getting it becomes easier and cheaper all the time...

You're not wrong. Yaabaa was 300 bht a pop in our village over a decade ago, 100 bht or less now.

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2 hours ago, Forrests Father said:

Drug (ya baa) use is rampant in Northern and Northeastern Thailand. Cheap labs across the boarder to Myanmar and Laos, 50 THB a pop and then at the same time:

How do you think it gets across the border?

Uniformed cash-cow.

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7 hours ago, edwinchester said:

You're not wrong. Yaabaa was 300 bht a pop in our village over a decade ago, 100 bht or less now.

Mixed with Lao  Khao 10bht for a redbull bottle full, yikes ! I've just realized same price

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5 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Drugs in this country are in control... and we know who has it?

how else do you think top RTP get their millions.

the problem is its Ya-Ba and its cheap again
they clamped down on yaba years ago as those selling moved onto the more profitable ice/meth

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Sorry to say this and not condoning what happened but there are plenty of mothers around here who are also alcoholics, the older ones chew something like beetle nut. 

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Last year yaba was 60 baht in our village now its 50 baht, cheaper than a bottle of chang.

 

It's now not safe to leave the house at night. The knife fights have taken the lives of 3 teenagers in a village of less than 200 people.

 

The police don't see to do anything. 20 years our local drug dealer was shot dead outside our house by the police. At the time I was shocked but now they don't even <deleted> test anymore.

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