If the Public Health Ministry is worried about those laws, it should ask the government to amend them," Mr Nimit said. Apart from prohibiting drug taking, the law also criminalises those who supply needles or syringes to drug addicts. The Public Health Ministry is preparing to send a letter to the permanent secretary for justice in order to find a joint solution. The distribution should be carried out along with attempts to have them quit drug taking, he said. Mr Nimit earlier suggested the new needles and syringes could be given out at drug rehabilitation centres.

Source: Bangkok Post December 04, 2017 21:45 UTC