PM declares new fight on drugs

Asset seizures will increase as the great objectives are set.

Within its four-year name as a new national agenda item, the government has vowed to make efforts to eradicate opiate drugs, particularly meth.

Additionally, it has invited the people to visit the effort to reduce medicines and will commit to a short-term goal of containing as many drugs as possible in the first year.

Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin stated yesterday, speaking at a conference of the state committee on drug destruction,” The government wants to split the circle of opioid drug problem, from smuggling to drug addiction and money laundering.”

The commission, which also includes some government ministries, the head of the Narcotics Control Board, and the federal police chief, is presided over by the prime minister.

The need to address the drug problem is higher on the plan, he said, and” a consensus has been reached among the 11 partnership parties as well as all other functions in the opposition.”

Pharmaceutical smuggling, which is seen as a crucial step in preventing drugs from entering communities, is currently the top priority. He said it will be necessary to cut down on the time between medications being seized during a assault and when they are destroyed.

According to Mr. Srettha, cutting them and their networking off from these sources requires expediting the process of seizing the property of drug dealers. Let’s start a new battle now to eradicate drug issues from world, he said.

State agencies in question are now being asked to speed up assets arrest efforts in every medicine case because assets expropriation is the worst fear of drug dealers.

In order to give state agencies and the general public a sense of security in joining the fight against drugs, Mr. Srettha promised to follow up on the work’s development while ensuring that good management rules are followed. Methamphetamines must remain eradicated within the four-year expression of this government, the problem may subside within a month, he said.

Following the meeting, Mr. Srettha observed the destruction of narcotics seized in more than 100 new medication cases at an Akkhie Prakarn Plc-owned incineration facility in the Muang neighborhood of Samut Prakan.

Methamphetamine, crystal meth, 418 kilograms of cocaine, 179 kg of opium, 704 kg, and 25.51 tonnes of various narcotics were among the drugs.

They were burned at temperatures ranging from 800 to 1,200 degrees Celsius in a healthy gas-powered oven that had pollution-controlling and environmentally friendly technology.

Drugs seized during crackdowns can now be destroyed much more quickly than they were in the past, according to Wichai Chaimongkhon, secretary-general of the Narcotics Control Board( ONCB ), which could take up to ten years.

Recent changes to the laws governing the death of drugs seized in a drug case earlier, he said, also sped up the process and relieved the ONCB’s burden of handling drugs that were awaiting destruction.

Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul stated that the government will speed up the provincial level repression of medicine smuggling and trade in response to the PM’s directive to make the drug battle a national plan item.

Regarding the time body, Mr. Anutin stated that he must acknowledge that it is impossible to predict with certainty when this issue will be resolved. Setting a tight deadline was backfire, he warned.

The president’s anti-drug policy, according to Pornpen Khongkachonkiet, a human rights activist and chairman of the Cross Cultural Foundation, is similar to the widespread extrajudicial killings that occurred during the Thaksin Shinawatra administrations’ war on drugs plan 20 years ago.

The war on drugs, which Thaksin started in 2003, caused a stir among rights activists after it reportedly resulted in the deaths of more than 2,500 suspects.

She stated,” The administration’s promise to completely eradicate opioid drugs makes me concerned and worry that history will repeat itself.”