More Phuket School Kids Caught With Meth, Krathom

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More Phuket school kids caught with meth, krathom

Phuket Gazette

Evidence seized in Phuket yesterday included a large batch of the "4 x 100" drug cocktail popular with youths in the Deep South provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat. Photo: Warisa Temram.

PHUKET: -- Schoolkids in Phuket are taking pharmaceutical drugs after ya ice (crystal methamphetamine) smoking sessions in an attempt to turn up negative in urine tests for the drug, local officials have revealed

Muang District Chief Supachai Pochanakul described the trend of growing drug abuse by schoolchildren in Muang District as “very worrying”.

The statement follows a recent round-up of 19 truant school children in secondary schools, 15 of whom tested positive for ya bah (methamphetamine pills).

Mr Supachai said the drug of choice among the children was ya ice (crystal methamphetamine), typically bought from suppliers in Patong, on the west coast of Phuket.

Some of the youths caught using the drug recently confessed to taking an unspecified “kidney cleaning” pharmaceutical drug in order to test negative if forced to provide urine samples.

The youths said the drug also causes them to vomit. A sample of the drug provided by one youth was sent for analysis, he said.

Officials in Phuket use a "meth cassette" test kit in conducting urine tests. If the urine turns telltale purple, the test is considered positive, although the results need to be verified by more accurate blood testing.

Meanwhile, Muang District drug suppression officers coordinated with the headman of Rassada sub-district Village 2 to raid a group of youths in a small shack in the Bang Chee Lao Community yesterday.

The community, built on reclaimed mangrove forest, is home to many transplants from the three Deep South provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat, where the “4 x 100” drug cocktail is popular.

Four youths were found in possession of leaves of the krathom tree, which is native to the region. The leaves, which act as a mild stimulant, are restricted as a Category 5 drug.

The boiled leaves are the key ingredient used to make the “4 x 100” cocktail. Other ingredients include cola, cough syrup and, in some cases, ground up mosquito repellant coils.

Source: http://www.phuketgaz...ticle12212.html

-- Phuket Gazette 2012-02-06

[thaiIand]

ahh thais.. cant keep their mouth shit when they get caught. Must be that stellar education they are getting. Should keep this article for the next threads where farang defend their choice of sending their kids to thai schools.

Edited February 6, 2012 by thaiIand

[Darkman]

Wonder if they've been watching Breaking Bad.

[tragickingdom]

It must be a goldmine for the police. Not only are the test kits not reliable at all as urine colors purple when people are on anything from weight loss medicines to simple cold relief, it gives the police the power to demand tens of thousands of baht from parents who do not now. Not only is demanding a urine sample from just about anyone absurd it becomes even more absurd when the urine is not send to a proper lab for analysis.

[anselpixel]

Amazing Google. When I reached the end of this thread, they were running one ad for a drug test kit, and one for a meth decontamination guide. Fair and balanced.

[Sharp]

Wonder if they've been watching Breaking Bad.

Just watched series 2 top show .

[HerbalEd]

ahh thais.. cant keep their mouth shit when they get caught. Must be that stellar education they are getting. Should keep this article for the next threads where farang defend their choice of sending their kids to thai schools.

You need to expand your horizons. It's not like Thailand is the only country with a school-kids drug problem.

[thaiIand]

but in other countries they keep their ratty mouth shut

[marc11864]

but in other countries they keep their ratty mouth shut

But seriously, <deleted> is wrong with you?

And being dropped on your head too many times as a child has already been taken.

[rotorbreeze]

Problem exists here in Pattaya big time, I stay in top corner a two story apartment building. The Yaba dealer (buster once already) continues and nightly on his two stroke bike leave on a regular smoke filled bases, awaken tenants to a chainsaw with no muffler every hour till dawn...had a CTV camera mounted outside my window...later had the parent of the dealer says it is an invation of their privacy as it pointed towards their house, I had through a translator say I am concerned about my privacy at night with all the drug dealing going on. Oh no a farang has no say here...yet the residental home owner operates a fence fabrication operation..with weekends of cutting and grinding...even on King's birthday the house owner was working...regarding of all closures of government buildings on this specail day. FYI, if you spot a two stroke with a BLUE headlight and a trail of smoke behind him he is easy to spot..as I have passed him on Nakula many times...this guy is does not sleep...he is not aware of blending in on his business and pray I get a full nights rest soon.

[monkeyboots]

ahh thais.. cant keep their mouth shit when they get caught. Must be that stellar education they are getting. Should keep this article for the next threads where farang defend their choice of sending their kids to thai schools.

Your argument being what exactly? I assume you come from a place with no drug problem due the quality of education then? Let us in on the secret....