Senior Thai Narcotics Control Board official Chartichai Suthiklom said the potentially lethal stimulant had found its way into schools and universities from its traditional market of farmers, truck drivers and fishermen.
People take it to work harder and for fun as well.
It is cheap and extremely dangerous. Most of our efforts are going towards trying to smash the new threat. It is causing us far more problems than even heroin. Seizure figures of the easily concealed drug for the last year were now being calculated and early estimates suggested a record of more than 10 million tablets had been seized. The drug is manufactured in refineries on the border with Laos and Burma.