Thai drug abusers estimated to number 2.7 million
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Thailand has been struggling with an increasingly complicated drug problem as abusers are estimated to number as much as 2.7 million and the scourge of drugs apparently targets the very young.
“It’s worrying that children as young as seven are used as drug couriers,” Boonruang Triruangworawat, director of the National Narcotics Control Management Centre, said Sunday, which was the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
Five 11-year-olds have been sent to drug-rehabilitation programmes this year, he said.
