Addiction Treatment Centre / Drug Rehabilitation

[marshbags]

B.Post>>>General news >> Monday August 27, 2007

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Addiction treatment centre to move

Most new illegal-drug users aged 15-24 years

The Public Health Ministry will bring the Thanyarak Institute on Drug Abuse under the control of the ministry's Permanent Secretary Office in a bid to improve drug addiction treatment across the country.

Public Health Minister Mongkol Na Songkhla said the ministry would move the Thanyarak Institute _ a drug rehabilitation centre supervised by the Medical Sciences Department _ to come under the ministry's Permanent Secretary Office as it wanted the institute to work with hospitals to provide drug addiction treatment across the country.

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Education is an essential part of rehabilitation and needs to start as soon as is possible, especially among the most vunerable young ones with at least 30,000 estimated 13-18 year olds at risk. ( I reckon it,s a conservative estimate, nationally )

In my neck of the woods in the U.K. they are successfully addressing the problem with pre education in schools along with re education and support for the anyone addicted.

Punishment as such is mainly on these lines while more realistic sentences are given to the suppliers / Drug Barons

Long jail terms ( very long ) and stripping of assets that cannot be honestly accounted for.

marshbags

[garro]

In my view the Wat Thamkrabok treatment facility is a credit to Thailand and should be replicated throughout the land, and indeed the world. Wat Thamkrabok is not under direct government control or interference and this is how it should be.

Many of the monks at the temple are ex-addicts themselves and so know what they are talking about. The service is free and available to all. I hope that Thailand never finds itself developing the money-making treatment center ethos that has developed in much of the west.

As an ex-patient of the temple I could never praise it highly enough.

[Thanyaburi Mac]

In my view the Wat Thamkrabok treatment facility is a credit to Thailand and should be replicated throughout the land, and indeed the world. Wat Thamkrabok is not under direct government control or interference and this is how it should be.

Many of the monks at the temple are ex-addicts themselves and so know what they are talking about. The service is free and available to all. I hope that Thailand never finds itself developing the money-making treatment center ethos that has developed in much of the west.

As an ex-patient of the temple I could never praise it highly enough.

Congratulations to you on completing the program there!!

I go up now and then to visit Monk Gordon, the black American guy who's been there for lots and lots of years.  If I've been downtown before going, I'll try to pick him up a SUBWAY "hoagie," Italian BMT, double meat, foot long, with EVERYTHING on it.  If I just leave from home, a bit north of Don Muang, I'll stop at Saraburi TESCO-LOTUS and get him a large pizza, "super delux."  Or sometimes a bucket of KFC.  Hey, just a change in diet for him.

Which reminds me, I've not been up there for a few months now.  Used to go more ofteh when the Lao-Hmong were in the camp.

Mac

[garro]

In my view the Wat Thamkrabok treatment facility is a credit to Thailand and should be replicated throughout the land, and indeed the world. Wat Thamkrabok is not under direct government control or interference and this is how it should be.

Many of the monks at the temple are ex-addicts themselves and so know what they are talking about. The service is free and available to all. I hope that Thailand never finds itself developing the money-making treatment center ethos that has developed in much of the west.

As an ex-patient of the temple I could never praise it highly enough.

Congratulations to you on completing the program there!!

I go up now and then to visit Monk Gordon, the black American guy who's been there for lots and lots of years. If I've been downtown before going, I'll try to pick him up a SUBWAY "hoagie," Italian BMT, double meat, foot long, with EVERYTHING on it. If I just leave from home, a bit north of Don Muang, I'll stop at Saraburi TESCO-LOTUS and get him a large pizza, "super delux." Or sometimes a bucket of KFC. Hey, just a change in diet for him.

Which reminds me, I've not been up there for a few months now. Used to go more ofteh when the Lao-Hmong were in the camp.

Mac

Monk Gordon is certainly a character and the story I heard about how he ended up there is fascinating. I left the temple fourteen months ago but will always have fond memories of the people there.

Have you met Phra Hans, the Swiss monk? He was a great help to me while I was there and I continue to think about his wise words regularly.

Paul