The national police chief has pledged to crack down on a “new” type of drug better known as “powdered milk ketamine”, following a case in which six people in Bangkok died on the same day after consuming it.
National police chief Pol Gen Suwat Jangyodsuk said police could not yet confirm whether the substance, which looks like powdered milk, was a combination of ketamine and sleeping pills as speculated, as the results of the autopsies had not yet been released.
Pol Gen Suwat said he had instructed the Metropolitan Police Bureau (MPB) and the Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB) to urgently investigate where the substance came from and how it was distributed.
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