Bali has begun to attract drug and alcohol addicts for its rehabilitation centers.
In the government’s relentless war against the poor man’s drug, “shabu” (methamphetamine hydrochloride), another class of drug catering mainly to moneyed Filipino youth has not been given sufficient attention, and could soon burst out of control, just like shabu.
You may not be taking “shabu,” cocaine or other substances, but you may unknowingly be a “drug user” or “drug pusher,” too.
I thought I heard it wrong, but there was no one else there, trying to get past the makeshift barricade at the foot of the Edsa People Power Monument, just behind one side of the stage at last Wednesday’s rally.
We asked 152 people between the ages of 15 and 55—a mix of students, writers, NGO workers, marketing officers, chefs,...
PAST midnight last weekend, the doors of a popular nightclub in Bonifacio Global City (BGC), Taguig, were tightly guarded by burly bouncers and uniformed policemen with their K-9 in tow.
Everyone in the country these days is talking about drugs: politicians, preachers, teachers, lawyers, law enforcers, parents. Everyone, that is, except those directly affected by drugs: drug addicts and users. Wouldn’t it make more sense to listen to what they think?
In life, Michael Siaron was all but invisible, just one of the faceless masses barely getting by on the mean streets of Metro Manila.
We are parents to a generation whose mantra is #Yolo (you only live once).
You don’t start when they are 16 years old. You begin laying the groundwork as early as the preschool years.
