Some 158,000 Thais being treated for drug addiction
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Some 158,012 of the country's estimated 2 million drug addicts underwent rehabilitation at 1,287 hospitals over the past nine months, Deputy Public Health Minister Cholanan Srikaew said Wednesday.
Of them, 84,404 were forced into the programme, while 60,622 opted for it voluntarily and 12,986 were sentenced to do courses by courts. Most of them – 84 per cent – were addicted to ‘yaba’ and a third were aged from 18 and 24.
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