Children Involved in Drugs: Excerpts from Qualitative Research in the Early 2000s

• Main Authors: Porio, Emma E, Crisol, Christine
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• Subjects: Drug abuse; Philippines; Social aspects; Drug abuse and crime; History; Criminology; Food and Drug Law; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Sociology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/sa-faculty-pubs/110; https://unipress.ateneo.edu/product/drugs-and-philippine-society
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The drug problem in the Philippines assumed a transnational character in the 1990s with the introduction of shabu. In the early 1990s; shabu was a drug mainly used by the upper and middle classes. By mid-1990s; the proliferation of cheaply processed shabu made it the poor man’s cocaine. Drug users a...