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    Keeping Filipinos Addicted

    Issues and Problems in the War

    against Drugs

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    INTRODUCTION

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    What are drugs?

    Drugs are chemical substances that bring

    about physical, emotional or behavioral

    changes in a person taking it. These are

    considered harmful when taken excessively.

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    What are dangerous drugs?

    Medicine

    There is no clear, single

    medical definition of

    dangerous drugs.

    However, it seems that all

    drugs have the potential to be

    dangerousif abused, or

    taken in excess.

    Law

    RA 9165 provides specific lists

    of substances considered to be

    dangerous drugs.

    Examples of these are

    shabu, marijuana, and opium,

    among others.

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    In the Philippines

    The old law defined dangerous drugs as referring to

    either prohibited or regulated drugs.

    The new law has removed this distinction. All drugsare regulated.

    Drugs deemed dangerous are either

    completely prohibited, or subject to regulations in

    The Philippines.

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    In the Philippines

    The concept of a recreational drug does not

    exist because our social norms do not allow it.

    Instead, we have socially acceptable addictive

    substances such as alcohol, nicotine, and

    caffeine.

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    RA 9165

    Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act

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    Comparison

    RA 6425

    1. Created the Dangerous

    Drugs Board

    2. No PDEAother lawenforcement agency?

    3. ?

    4. Prosecution of bothdrug pushers and drug

    users

    RA 9165

    1. Revived the Dangerous

    Drugs Board

    2. Created the PhilippineDrug Enforcement

    Agency

    3. Rehabilitation4. Treatment of drug

    users as victims

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    RA 9165

    1. Inapplicability of the RPC, unless the offender

    is a minor

    2. No plea-bargaining

    3. Disqualification under the Probation Law

    4. Testing positive for use of drugs as a

    qualifying aggravating circumstance5. Informant immunity

    6. Rehabilitation

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    Crimes under RA 9165

    Trade

    Drug den, dive or resort

    Manufacture / Cultivation Possession

    Use

    Others (Records, Prescription) Attempt or Conspiracy

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    SEC 20: CONFISCATION ANDFORFEITURE

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    SEC 21: CUSTODY AND DISPOSITION

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    DISPOSITION FLOWCHART

    (SECTION 21 OF RA 9165)

    SEIZURE / CONFISCATION

    INVENTORY / PHOTOGRAPH

    PDEA Forensic Laboratory

    (conducts quantitative and qualitative exam)

    immediately

    Within 24 hours

    Within 24 hours

    Complete Laboratory Result issued (under

    oath)

    Partial Result Issued

    If not manageableIf volume manageable

    Within 24 hours

    72 hrs. after filing of case in court

    continuation

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    continuation

    Within 24 hours

    COURT (THRU PDEA) SHALL CAUSE DESTRUCTION/BURNING

    (provided a representative sample recorded and retained)

    Board Issues Sworn Certification of Destruction/Burning& Representative Sample (w/ PDEA) Forwarded to Court for Evidence

    RESOLUTION OF CASE / COURT DECISION

    DESTRUCTION / BURNING OF REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE

    Within 24 hours from receipt of evidence

    OCULAR INSPECTION

    immediately

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    DRUG LAW POLICY-MAKING ANDENFORCEMENT BODIES

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    Dangerous Drugs Board

    Sec 77: The Board shall be the policy-making

    and strategy-formulating body in the planning

    and formulation of policies and programs on

    drug prevention and control. It shall developand adopt a comprehensive, integrated,

    unified and balanced national drug abuse

    prevention and control strategy.

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    Five Pillars

    1. Information dissemination

    2. Demand reduction

    3. Supply reduction4. Alternative development

    5. International cooperation

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    Adding to the List

    How do they choose new prohibited drugs?

    Who uses what?

    Degree of abuse

    Effects on person himself

    They have never declassified any drugs.

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    DDB Programs

    Seminar for judges

    Workshops for different agencies (Police,

    PDEA agents, NBI, prosecutors)

    Facilitate and stabilize inter-agency cooperation

    Reduce the lapses in procedure

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    DDB Partner Agencies

    DOJ

    DILG

    CHED

    DOLE

    DFA

    NYC NBI

    DOH

    DEPED

    DSWD

    DND DOF

    PDEA

    PNP

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    Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency

    Sec 82: To carry out the provisions of this Act,

    the PDEA, which serves as the implementing

    arm of the Board, and shall be responsible for

    the efficient and effective law enforcement ofall the provisions on any dangerous drug

    and/or controlled precursor and essential

    chemical as provided in this Act.

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    Drug Operations

    Buy Bust Operation

    Stakeout

    Preventive measures in airports and ports

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    PDEA Reveals

    Clandestine laboratories

    Smuggling and importation

    Drug hotspots Coordination with foreign agencies

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    Prices of Drugs

    Shabu 0.1 ounce = 500 pesos

    5 grams = 10-15k if theres a shortage of

    supply

    Ecstacy = 1,200k per tablet

    Cocaine = 3k per gram

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    Carrying Drugs Around

    Imagination is the limit.

    Ingestion, kid runner, homing pigeons, dry

    mules, body pads, insertion into various

    orifices of the body, Pilot pen capsules,

    carpeting, etc.

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    Oversight Committee

    The Congressional Oversight Committee on

    Dangerous Drugs shall set the guidelines to

    monitor and ensure the proper

    implementation of RA 9165. It shall submitperiodic reports to the President and

    Congress, and determine inherent weaknesses

    in the law and recommend the necessarymeasures.

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    THE WAR AGAINST DRUGS

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    Drug Use in the Philippines

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    SEX: Ratio of male to female is 9:1

    CIVIL STATUS: Single 56.94%

    EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT: High School level

    30.62%

    STATUS OF EMPLOYMENT : Unemployed (32.82%)

    PLACE OF RESIDENCE: Urban (Specifically NCR)

    DURATION OF DRUG TAKING: More than six (6)years

    NATURE OF DRUG TAKING : Poly drug use

    Profile of Drug Users

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    Most Abused Drugs

    Abuse

    Shabu

    Marijuana

    Inhalants

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    Rehabilitation Programs

    Voluntary submission

    Compulsory confinement

    Minors

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    PROBLEM AREAS

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    Prosecuting under RA 9165

    MISMATCH

    Time

    Resources

    Culture

    Coordination with other government units

    Other special penal laws

    Geographical situation

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    Prosecuting under RA 9165

    PERCEPTION

    Drugs

    Addiction

    Drug users

    KNOW THY ENEMY Changes in modus operandi

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    Controversies

    Narco-politics

    Alabang Boys

    Drug testing

    Sec 36, (f) and (g)

    Boratong

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    CONCLUSION ANDRECOMMENDATIONS

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    Conclusions and

    Recommendations

    Redefine the problem of drugs

    Increase DDB budget

    Do not equate drugs with money

    Lower the penalty of Possession to a

    misdemeanor

    Establish thresholds Bring back option for Plea Bargain

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    Conclusions and

    Recommendations

    Corruption

    Red tape

    Technology

    Abuse of the voluntary submission program

    Dealth penalty

    Include drug crimes in Crimes AgainstHumanity

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    Conclusions and

    Recommendations

    Amend the law

    Probation

    Plea-bargaining

    Section 5

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    Thank you.