BANGKOK, May 26 – Drug use is spreading in Thailand’s central provinces where most of the country’s drug addicts, 35 per cent of users nationwide, are staying, Assistant Commissioner of the Royal Thai Police Pol Lt-Gen Worapong Chewpreecha said today.

Gen Worapong conceded that severe drug use was spreading in five provinces adjacent to the capital and that the areas are under the responsibility of Provincial Police Region 1.

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