The Politics of Drug Rehabilitation in the Philippines

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Lasco, Gideon, Yarcia, Lee Edson
• التنسيق: text
• منشور في: Archīum Ateneo 2022
• الموضوعات: drug; human rights; politics; reform process; Philippines; Asia; developing country; human; Developing Countries; Human Rights; Humans; Politics; Medicine and Health Sciences; Public Health; Rehabilitation and Therapy; Substance Abuse and Addiction
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/121; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1121&context=dev-stud-faculty-pubs
• المؤسسة: Ateneo De Manila University

The international consensus to end compulsory drug treatments and close forced rehabilitation facilities needs urgent transformation to country policies. In the Philippines, as with other countries in Asia, rehabilitation can be compulsory and is seen as the humane alternative to the “war on drugs.”...