39 test positive for drugs at conscription screening

39 test positive for drugs at conscription screening

Young men await further processing following positive drug tests at the Tha Sala district hall in Nakhon Si Thammarat on Friday. Four were caught with containers of clean urine (inset) in their underwear. (Photo by Nujaree Raekrun)
Young men await further processing following positive drug tests at the Tha Sala district hall in Nakhon Si Thammarat on Friday. Four were caught with containers of clean urine (inset) in their underwear. (Photo by Nujaree Raekrun)

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: Thirty-nine of the 240 young men taking part in military conscription screening in Tha Sala district of this southern province have tested positive for drug use, with four men caught with containers of clean urine in their underwear.

Supongsawinai Chuyok, chief of Tha Sala district, said the tests were conducted on 240 men aged 21 years old who had reported for screening on Friday and Saturday at the district hall. 

All but two of those who tested positive for drug use were ordered to undergo drug rehabilitation treatment. The two who had denied taking drugs were sent to the Tha Sala police station for legal action, said the district chief.

In the annual conscription period in April last year, authorities said that 12,209 men, or 6.7% of the 182,910 men reporting for military conscription nationwide, tested positive for use of illicit drugs.


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