ArticleHealth and human rights2022
The Politics of Drug Rehabilitation in the Philippines.
Article in Health and human rights, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Prevalence, drug education, and other associated factors of current illicit drug use among a nationally representative sample of school-aged adolescents in the Philippines in 2019.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2025Article
- Towards Health Policy for All-Re-visioning Health and Social Systems for Equity and Resilience.Acta medica Philippina · 2025Article
- War on Drugs in the Philippines: Evaluating Fear Appeals as Antidote to Continued Drug Use.Acta medica Philippina · 2025Article
- "Reducing the Treatment Gap" Poses Human Rights Risks.Health and human rights · 2024Article
- The State of the HIV Epidemic in the Philippines: Progress and Challenges in 2023.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023Review
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Abstract
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." In this paper, we present the landscape of rehabilitation and narrate the ways in which people who use drugs are forced to undergo treatment. We unpack the politics behind rehabilitation and explain the sociocultural foundations that support compulsory treatment. We argue that a transition to a human rights-based approach, including voluntary alternatives in community settings, is possible by capitalizing on the reforms that are, unwittingly, the result of the "war on drugs."
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