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The prevalence of illegal drug use in the Philippines is lower than the global average, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). [1] President Rodrigo Duterte has claimed that the country could become a "narco-state".
The drug policy of the Philippines is guided by the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 and is implemented by the Dangerous Drugs Board with its implementing arm, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency along with other member agencies. Aside from regulating and prohibiting the usage, sale, production of certain drugs, the 2002 law is ...
Owing to its geographical location, international drug syndicates use the Philippines as a transit hub for the illegal drug trade. [45] [46] Some local drug syndicates and gangs are also involved in narcotics, utilizing drug mules to transport small amounts of illegal drugs to other countries. [47]
As president, Duterte withdrew the Philippines from the ICC’s founding treaty in 2019 after the court launched a preliminary examination into thousands of killings under his anti-drugs crackdown.
But in Olongapo, a city of 220,000 three hours north of Manila, drug users are taught carpentry skills and paid 5,000 Philippine pesos ($103) a month to build wooden coffins as part of the local ...
The Philippine drug enforcement agency denied on Monday that Marcos was ever on such a list, but that didn’t deter Duterte from digging in during another rally on Tuesday. “Fentanyl is ...
There is no comprehensive epidemiologic data on the magnitude of inhalant abuse among children and adolescents in the Philippines. [ 2 ] In response to widespread abuse of toluene-based substances, stricter rules have been imposed on the manufacture and sale of Rugby and similar glues by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, such as the ...
Facing a U.N. human rights investigation into its bloody war on drugs, the Philippines presented a new death toll on Thursday to counter much higher numbers given by critics. President Rodrigo ...