Navy drug-rehab school celebrates latest graduates

Friday, 31 August 2012 From Issue Vol. XX No. 35 By  Patcharapol Panrak
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The Royal Thai Navy’s drug rehab school in Sattahip has graduated its latest class of reformed addicts, sending 120 people arrested for narcotics use back to their families where it’s hoped they’ll remain clean.

Rear Adm. Traikhwan Krairith congratulated the patients for completing their 120-day drug rehabilitation program at the Air and Coastal Defense Command facility Aug. 15.

Rear Adm. Traikhwan Krairith congratulates the patients for completing their 120-day drug rehabilitation program. Rear Adm. Traikhwan Krairith congratulates the patients for completing their 120-day drug rehabilitation program.

During the ceremony, Wiwat students pledged in front of a statue of Prince Khet Udomsak that they would not get involved in drugs again. They also promised to stay true to their words before monks blessed the grads, sprinkling them with holy water and wishing them good luck before sending back out into the world.

Krairith said the students underwent both physical and mental rehabilitation due to the degenerative impact of drugs. All people, he said, deserve a second chance and the school works to make addicts productive again. For that reason, drug users are sometimes sent to Wiwat Polamuang rather than prison.



2 comments

  • Comment Link Friday, 19 October 2012 19:59 posted by Joseph Phiri

    That is what i want. To start a private drug & alcohol rehabilitation centre in our country Zambia. Rehabilitation at the moment is done at a physcatric hospital , in Lusaka , Zambia.
    I have a vision to start a rehab centre but i dont have the knowledge beacause i have not been trained in the same despite being a Pharmacy Technologist by profession and a Pastor .
    So seing that school , oh how i wish we had one training school in this nation.
    God bless you.
    Joseph Phiri

  • Comment Link Friday, 31 August 2012 19:44 posted by Rockingbird

    What are automatic rifles doing in a ceremony for drug rehabilitated patients, while being blessed by a monk?

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