Study reveals city’s drug-poverty links
More than 92,000 primary school-aged children are at risk of being exposed to narcotics, especially those who grow up in poor families with parents who take drugs, according to research by Mahidol University’s National Institute for Child and Family Development (NICFD).
The NICFD’s study, conducted on 1,309 families living in Bangkok slums who have at least one child up to the age of six years, showed that 6%, or 83 families, either have parents or guardians with a history of drug addiction, said the…
