SOCIAL HEALTH
Aid for drug addicts is 'not up to scratch'
- Published: 19/04/2011 at 02:14 AM
- Newspaper section: News
More compulsory drug treatment and rehab programmes are needed as up to 900,000 Thais across the country are addicted to illicit drugs, says a senior official at the Office of the Narcotics Control Board.
ONCB adviser Pittaya Jinawat yesterday cited a recent survey by the ONCB which showed there were about 800,000-900,000 drug users nationwide. However, the existing compulsory drug treatment and rehabilitation programmes could treat only one-sixth of the addicts, driving the remaining drug users to become small-scale dealers, Mr Pittaya said.
To solve the drug problem, anti-narcotics agencies must get more drug users into treatment and rehabilitation programmes, the ONCB adviser said.
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