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Prawit orders better joint effort to stem drug influx
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published : 8 Feb 2021 at 04:30
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Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon has ordered security officials to closely cooperate with the Office of the Narcotics Control Board to prevent the trafficking of narcotics from the Golden Triangle into Thailand, as drug labs across the border switch to more cost-effective methods of production.
The order followed an intelligence report which suggests that producers in the Golden Triangle region are using new precursors to make methamphetamine that allows them to slash production costs by four times and offer lower prices to consumers in Thailand, said Gen Prawit s spokesman, Lt Gen Koncheep Tantravanich.
The "k-powdered milk" drug, which has so far claimed nine lives, contains the tranquiliser diazepam but uses 20 times the safe amount, according to Justice Minister Somsak Thepsutin.
8 Justice Minister Somsak Thepsutin speaks about k-powdered milk during a press conference at the parliament in Bangkok on Friday. (Photo: Aekarach Sattuburuth)
The new cocktail of illicit drugs that has killed many people contains a huge overdose of tranquilizer, Justice Minister Somsak Thepsutin said on Friday.
Mr Somsak was answering questions at a press conference at the parliment on the new drug cocktail, known as k-powdered milk, which has killed seven users in Bangkok recently.
He said the Office of the Narcotics Control Board tested samples taken from the bodies of the people who died. They found diazepam equivalent to 100 Valium pills.
64 Sniffer dogs seek out illegal drugs on Monday in the area around Wat Phraya Krai in the capital. Arnun Chonmahatrakool
The national police chief has pledged to crack down on a new illegal drug cocktail known as k-powdered milk after six people died in Bangkok on the same day after using it.
National police chief Pol Gen Suwat Jangyodsuk said police could not yet confirm whether the substance, which looks like powdered milk, was a combination of ketamine and sleeping pills as speculated, as the results of the autopsies had not yet been released.
Some reports said it also contained methamphetamine and heroin.