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Opium seen as promising medicinal crop
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 13/11/2025
» Opium cultivation could become a viable option to enhance Thailand's proficiency in plant-based medicine while also assisting local farmers, says Deputy Public Health Minister Worachot Sukhonkhachon.
Public Health Ministry pushing for one-tab rule for meth
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 07/06/2024
» The Ministry of Public Health is seeking to make regulatory changes where anyone possessing more than one methamphetamine tablet, rather than five or more tablets at present, will be regarded as an offender and not be sent to rehab.
'5-pill rule' to become just 1 for meth
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 18/05/2024
» The Public Health Ministry has proposed tightening the definition of a drug user by limiting the legally permissible number of methamphetamine tablets, aka ya ba, from the current threshold of five pills to one to seal a loophole that benefits drug dealers.
Volunteer health workers urged to report drug crimes
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 18/05/2024
» Public Health Minister Somsak Thepsutin has called on local health volunteers to tip off authorities about drug smugglers, adding that alerting authorities is part of their job and makes them eligible for rewards.
Meth pill possession rules set to tighten: Somsak
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 09/05/2024
» Public Health Minister Somsak Thepsuthin said on Wednesday that he plans to lower the minimum number of amphetamine tablets a person can be found to possess before it is considered a criminal act.
Raids yield haul of illegal antivirals
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 05/08/2022
» The Ministry of Public Health warned the public not to purchase antiviral drugs without a prescription after its staff joined police to raid houses in Bangkok. They seized 80,000 illegally imported tablets worth about 10 million baht being sold online.
Elderly patients to get molnupiravir first
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 19/03/2022
» Two million capsules of molnupiravir, the first oral medicine against Covid-19, arrived in the country on Friday for use as a prescribed medicine for high-risk patient groups, according to the Department of Medical Services.
'More patients to be given Favipiravir'
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 08/08/2021
» The Public Health Ministry has decided to administer Favipiravir to more groups of Covid-19 patients and is planning to stockpile 420 million tablets of the antiviral drug.
Order goes in for 27m more pills
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 04/08/2021
» The National Health Security Office (NHSO) will purchase another 27 million tablets of the antiviral drug favipiravir this year and next year for the treatment of Covid-19 patients.
NHSO to purchase another 27m tablets of anti-viral drug favipiravir
Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 03/08/2021
» The National Health Security Office (NHSO) will purchase an additional 27 million tablets of the anti-viral drug favipiravir this year and next year for the treatment of Covid-19 patients