Bangkok community's members drug-tested
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The Office of the Narcotics Control Board and related agencies yesterday dispatched officials to provide voluntary-based drug tests at a community in Bangkok's Hua Mark area and advised drug abusers to get into rehabilitation programmes.
ONBC secretary-general Permpong Chaowalit joined some 70 officials in the visit to the community along Klaong Hua Mark Noi, with 50 people volunteering to be drug-tested through urine samples – one of whom tested positive and must enter rehab.
Permpong said the visit was part of the drug-free community project and that this community had seen eight drug suspects previously arrested including a woman who admitted to boiling water with kratom leaves to feed to her two-year-old daughter.
