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The Politics of Drug Rehabilitation in the Philippines
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.”...
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Harvard University Press
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9212821/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35747271 |
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author | Lasco, Gideon Yarcia, Lee Edson |
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description | 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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spelling | pubmed-92128212022-06-22 The Politics of Drug Rehabilitation in the Philippines Lasco, Gideon Yarcia, Lee Edson Health Hum Rights Research-Article 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.” Harvard University Press 2022-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9212821/ /pubmed/35747271 Text en Copyright © 2022 Lasco and Yarcia. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction. |
spellingShingle | Research-Article Lasco, Gideon Yarcia, Lee Edson The Politics of Drug Rehabilitation in the Philippines |
title | The Politics of Drug Rehabilitation in the Philippines |
title_full | The Politics of Drug Rehabilitation in the Philippines |
title_fullStr | The Politics of Drug Rehabilitation in the Philippines |
title_full_unstemmed | The Politics of Drug Rehabilitation in the Philippines |
title_short | The Politics of Drug Rehabilitation in the Philippines |
title_sort | politics of drug rehabilitation in the philippines |
topic | Research-Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9212821/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35747271 |
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