Thai authorities conduct door-to-door urine tests
RTE Tuesday 9th September, 2014
Thai authorities have conducted anti-drug raids across Bangkok, sending scores of "addicts" to rehabilitation centres after conducting door-to-door urine tests, police said, in the latest junta crackdown on law and order. The pre-dawn operation by police and army officers saw the arrest of 22 small-time dealers while 83 suspected drug users were dispatched for treatment, deputy Bangkok police chief Ittipon Piriyapinyo told AFP. "We went to targeted places - where there are teenagers gathering, people suspected of taking drugs or small-time drug-sellers," Mr Piriyapinyo said. The suspects we