¿Qué alcance tiene realmente el problema de las drogas en las Filipinas?

El diario The Conversation analiza las creencias sociales y las tendencias que se esconden tras la guerra contra las drogas en las Filipinas.

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By Gideon Lasco

“Hitler massacred three million Jews … there’s three million drug addicts. There are. I’d be happy to slaughter them.”

These words, spoken by Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte in September, have become notorious worldwide.

Duterte has since apologised for the reference to the Holocaust. But alongside continued concern about the extrajudicial killings in the Philippines drug war, questions remain about whether there are actually three million drug users in the country – and whether they are addicts.

If true, drug users would represent 3% of the nation’s population – even higher than Thailand’s 1.8% (based on a recent estimate of 1.2 million), or Indonesia’s 1.8% based on an official (but questionable) estimate of 4.5 million.

Are there really three million “drug addicts” in the Philippines?

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