by the Government of Thailand

Summary

by the Government of Thailand Alcoholic Beverage Control Act…

The alcoholic beverages result in several problems concerning health, families, accidents and crimes, affecting the whole society and economy of the Nation in consequence. It is expedient to determine the measures for their control and for treatment and rehabilitation of the alcoholics, so that the social and economic problems and impacts would be reduced, the public health would be enhanced, the people would be aware of harms and dangers of the alcoholic beverages, and the children and juveniles would be prevented from easy access to them. It is therefore necessary to enact this Act.
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by the Government of Thailand Alcoholic Beverage Control Act…

In this Act:
"Alcoholic beverage" means a spirit under the law on spirits, but not includes medicines, psychoactive substances or harmful drugs under the laws concerned;
"Alcoholic" means a person who consumes an alcoholic beverage in a manner increasing the amount thereof time by and time, to the extent detrimental to his own physical or mental health and causing him to incur the alcohol withdrawal syndrome once he ceases to so consume
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