Thai teens and kratom

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The inexpensive kratom leaf, from a native plant, is fuelling the current [drug] epidemic, Dr Srisompob said. Traditionally it was used by rubber tappers to give them energy; children now boil the kratom leaves to mix with Coca-Cola and sometimes codeine.


"At first, I thought Coke is a really popular drink here," said Abdulrahman Abdulsamad, headmaster of an Islamic school in Bajo, Narathiwat. Then he realised.


Teenagers also used ash from mosquito coils as a mixer. Putting fresh cow dung in a plastic bag and inhaling the fumes was another way to get high, he said.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/...455608771.html

Well-- it's better than cow dung!