DOI TUNG: Somchai Sophonsookpaiboon does not remember much about his younger years, except that they were spent in an opium haze.
It’s how all the men in his mountain village on the Thai-Myanmar border spent their time. Stateless and with little access to education, jobs or healthcare, their only options were trading opium or walking to the nearest town for odd jobs.
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