The Thai government extended the "Thai Help Thai Plus" stimulus programme for another 2 months citing high energy prices and geopolitical tensions. However, the opinion piece questions whether Thailand has become addicted to short-term relief measures rather than implementing long-term structural reforms. The author argues that continuous stimulus spending (funded by 200 billion baht loans) risks depleting resources without building productive capacity, productivity, or new jobs, and warns that such dependency could undermine the country's economic resilience and competitiveness when measures eventually end.