{"id":4108,"date":"2025-08-05T02:23:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/inside-the-monastery-where-crazy-medicine-addicts-drink-secret-potion-to-detox\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T02:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:23:57","slug":"inside-the-monastery-where-crazy-medicine-addicts-drink-secret-potion-to-detox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/inside-the-monastery-where-crazy-medicine-addicts-drink-secret-potion-to-detox\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the monastery where ‘crazy medicine’ addicts drink secret potion to detox"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In front of us, dozens of men line up to take a sweltering steam bath together, despite the temperature outside hitting 35C.<\/p>\n

When they emerge from the heat, they drink a dark green liquid of more than 100 ingredients as music plays.<\/p>\n

After drinking the secret potion, the men vomit while they kneel on the floor alongside each other.<\/p>\n

It is an obscure, uncomfortable ritual to witness, but they emerge seemingly revived.<\/p>\n

What we have witnessed is part of a “cold turkey” detox programme in a monastery for Thai men addicted to yaba, a methamphetamine mixed with caffeine.<\/p>\n

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The stimulant is so powerful that it is known as “crazy medicine”.<\/p>\n

Wat Tham Krabok monastery, about 85 miles north of Bangkok, has put more than 100,000 addicts through detox, with the patients first taking a sacred vow to ditch the drug.<\/p>\n

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“After vomiting, I feel a bit dizzy. But after that, I’m much better. I feel fresh. It feels like all the toxins have left my body,” Akadech tells me.<\/p>\n

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Fluk, who works in construction, has been taking 10 yaba pills a day.<\/p>\n

He says he initially started taking it for energy, so he could work. But when he didn’t, it was unbearable.<\/p>\n

“On any day that I didn’t take it, I wouldn’t be able to do anything.<\/p>\n

“I couldn’t even sit up straight. I couldn’t get up. I would sleep all the time.”<\/p>\n

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