Banglamung District Chief
Sakchai Taengho lays out plans for taking a harder line against drug
users.
Jetsada Homklin
Banglamung District will starting taking a harder line against
drug users, sending anyone caught using them to military-style
“rehabilitation centers,” District Chief Sakchai Taengho told community
leaders.
Laying out new policies for the start of the 2015 fiscal year, Sakchai
told the 80 community leaders that users will be treated at the
Rehabilitation Center Chonburi.
The center uses military-style training for drug treatment, as the
military government has announced that solving drug problems is a
nationwide task and needs to be strictly followed.
As a first step, the district chief had everyone assembled submit to
drug testing of their urine.
The government has tapped the National Command Centre for Combating
Drugs to enforce standard measures to solve the drug problems.
Its mission is to encourage all provinces to have a Rehabilitation
Center to solve drug problems. The centers are for those who are on
drugs, addicted or those who just have experimented with drugs to be
cleaned up and returned to society.
Community leaders are being encouraged to watch over neighbors,
especially youths, to prevent drug use. Those spotted using drugs should
be treated at a rehab center, they said.
