THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Friday expressed concern over the alarming increase in the number of minors being involved in illegal drug activities in the country. Read the rest of this entry »
Number of Filipino teenagers in drug trade increasing – PDEA
June 11, 2011
Drug gangs turning to foreign students as drug mules – PDEA
May 10, 2011
MANILA, Philippines – Foreign exchange students are now being groomed as “drug mules,” indicating a shifting trend in the recruitment process of narcotics couriers, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency said yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
DoJ: NBI hot on trail of international drug syndicates victimizing OFWs
February 18, 2011
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima yesterday said government investigators have been tasked to go after recruiters for employment abroad who are being used as fronts for transnational criminal syndicates which use Filipino workers a drug couriers. Read the rest of this entry »
US says drug rings using OFWs as couriers
January 4, 2011
MANILA, Philippines—Sophisticated transnational drug-trafficking syndicates—including a West African group using overseas Filipino workers as couriers—remain the biggest challenge to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and other agencies involved in the campaign against illegal drugs, according to a report from the US State Department. Read the rest of this entry »
1.7M Pinoys use illegal drugs, but number is declining
December 8, 2010
MANILA, Philippines—A total of 1.7 million Filipinos use illegal drugs, particularly the amphetamine-type stimulant “shabu” but the trend is on the decline, according to the latest narcotics report of the United Nations. Read the rest of this entry »
Ecstasy, meth becoming drugs of choice in Asia—UN agency
December 6, 2010
SAYS UN OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME
MANILA, Philippines—Ecstasy and methamphetamine are increasingly becoming the illegal drugs of choice in East and Southeast Asia, replacing heroin, opium, and cannabis, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said in a report. Read the rest of this entry »
Multisectoral coalition sounds alarm over fake medicine
November 16, 2010
MANILA, Philippines – A coalition of doctors, pharmacists, drug regulators and distributors is sounding the alarm on the proliferation of fake medicines. Read the rest of this entry »
South Luzon drivers, conductors undergo surprise drug tests
September 29, 2010
THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Tuesday morning conducted on-the-spot drug tests to bus drivers, conductors and employees plying the route of Southern Tagalog and Manila—to determine who are drug dependents. This was made after Homer Mercado, president of the Southern Luzon Bus Operators Association personally requested PDEA Director General Dionisio Santiago in his meeting early this month to conduct a “surprise” drug testing. Read the rest of this entry »
Maritime schools required to teach anti-drug measures
September 19, 2010
AS A MEASURE AGAINST ‘DRUG MULES’
MANILA, Philippines—The country’s maritime training schools and centers are now required to include in their maritime courses for seafarers topics on prevention of alcohol and drugs abuse in the maritime sector (Padams) and personal safety and social responsibility (PSSR). Read the rest of this entry »
Drug-crazed bus drivers
September 3, 2010
What’s with buses in the Philippines? Why have they become instruments of death for dozens of people?
Aside from the ill-fated tourist coach that a wild ex-cop hijacked on August 23 in Manila, other buses have brought death and injury to dozens of passengers with growing frequency in other parts of the country. Read the rest of this entry »
