The use of physical activity as part of a drug rehabilitation programme is not particularly new. However, The Edge Rehabilitation Centre in Thailand has developed an approach that utilises the ancient art of Thai boxing to help young people aged 18 to 26 to recover physically and mentally from addiction problems.
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Thailand has long been associated with the illegal drugs trade. Its proximity to the poppy fields in neighbouring Laos and Myanmar to the north saw it become a key route for heroin traffickers. In response, the Thai authorities focused enforcement activities on finding and destroying poppy fields and processing factories in its northern territories, to the point where by 2008, 80 per cent of poppy fields had been destroyed.
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