Cheap Drug Complicates Conflict in Southern Thailand
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A Thai drug user mixes the popular cheap narcotic drink as it is cooked over a fire on September 1, 2011 in Narwathiwat, southern Thailand. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
A Thai drug user adds the powder from an illegal pill called [mano one] to the popular cheap narcotic drink, 4 x 100, on September 1, 2011 in Narwathiwat, southern Thailand. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
Thai Malay Muslim user mixes coke into 4 x 100, the popular cheap narcotic drink on September 1, 2011 in Narwathiwat, southern Thailand. Translated as [sii khun roi], 4 x 100 is a mix of the illegal kratom leaf, cough syrup and Coca-Cola with added ingredients like tranquilizers and marijuana. Many unemployed young ethnic Thai Malay Muslims are becoming more embedded in daily substance abuse and a culture of drugs as they turn to substances such as 4 x 100, marijuana and methamphetamines to cope with daily life. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
Thai Malay Muslim drug users drink 4x100, the popular cheap narcotic drink, on September 1, 2011 in Narwathiwat, southern Thailand. In southern Thailand for the last 6 years there has been almost daily violence happening over a wide region which has claimed more than 4,000 lives. The on-going, low grade insurgency and violence is between Muslim separatists, and the Thai security forces in a country that is over 95% buddhist. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
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