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ItemA study on policies and practices in the field of drug use/abuse : the catholic university in dialogue with political and social actors in ThailandThis research project aims to study how drug policies have been formulated and implemented in Thailand. The Research Strategies has been an analysis of Thailand's Drug Policy Process: The research focused on the fo rmation of Thailand's drug policy, looking in particular at the "Five Fence Defe nsive Strategy" (April 2009 - September 2011}, and an analysis of Drug Policy Implement ation: The research fo cused on the implementation of the Five-Fence Defensive Strategy in local villages/commu nities. Samut Prakan pro vince was selected as a case study to examine the pol icy implementation. Five-Fence Defensive Strategies are the following: 1) Border Fence: to create activities and a process of work in order to strengthen drug law enforcement measures and interdict drug smuggling in target border areas, 2) Community Fence: to create activities and a process of work for all measures in order to strengthen drug immunity in the target villages/communities, 3} Social Fence: to create activities and a process of work for the integrated social orders, and to eliminate all kinds of risk factors to ii build up drug immunity for all communities/societies, 4) School Fence: to create activities and a process of work in order to strengthen schools and educational institutes in building up a drug immunity for new generation, and 5) Family Fence: to create activities and a process of work in order to strengthen families to be immune to drugs for being a strong unit of the Thai society as a whole.