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Crossing Continents

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Thailand. The Thais are paying a terrible price for their growing addiction to a synthetic form of speed called methamphetamine, known locally as yaa baa or "crazy medicine". Olenka Frenkiel joins the patrols that are trying to stop the drug traffickers from crossing the borderwith Burma. She visits army boot camps for convicted addicts and discovers that hundreds of Buddhist monks have been enlisted to fight this menace.
Repeated from Thursday

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Olenka Frenkiel

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