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Bulacan State University College of Criminal Justice Education
Bulacan State University College of Criminal Justice Education
INTRODUCTION
In today's modern world drug addiction has been still the issue around the world which
was trying to repress by the government in order to attain long lasting peace, improve economic
In the Philippines, the Aquino Administration’s view on drug abuse was more holistic.
The government embarked on public and youth awareness campaign like Barkada Kontra
Droga program, and institutionalized management and assessment of overall drug demand and
supply reduction through the Integrated Drug Abuse Data and Information Network, an online
data pooling and collection system. President Aquino during his term mainly exerted more effort
in increasing the economic growth of the country. There are lots of controversies faced by the
According to Castaneda, "the Aquino administration opted to neglect the country’s drug
problem and allow illegal activities to proliferate despite their knowledge about it."
However when President Duterte won in the last presidential election almost everything
According to Lapeña, "86,984 drug suspects arrested during the first year of the Duterte
administration, compared to the 18,766 suspects arrested in the first year of the previous
administration." President Duterte said in his first SONA, “I have resolved that no matter how
long it takes, the fight against illegal drugs will continue because it is the root cause of
suffering." Duterte administration mainly focused on in its first year, the fight against illegal
drugs. The President promised during the campaign for last year’s presidential elections and in
the first few weeks of his presidency to fully end the illegal drugs problem in the country. The
war on drugs has been through many changes in Duterte’s first 12 months. Since taking office on
June 30, 2016, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has carried out a “war on drugs” that has led
sees drug dealing and addiction as major obstacles to the Philippines’ economic and social
progress"
The war on drugs has received a high level of popular support from across the class
spectrum in the Philippines. The ***The province of Bulacan was 4th province with the highest
In this particular study, the researcher aims to Assess Duterte's Administration on War on
Drugs in the province of Malolos for the year 2016-2017. We would like to know if the actions
taken by President Duterte has a huge impact in the rehabilitation of the drug addicts which was
arrested by the police and as well as those who voluntarily surrendered or it just another useless
program set by the government. Furthermore the relevance of this study is to inform and give
awareness to the public about the effectiveness of Duterte's Administration in dealing with
Illegal Drugs. This study will show whether or not President Duterte's commitment on War on
Every administration always have a campaign when it comes to illegal drugs. Even
before President Rodrigo Duterte elected, many of drugs personalities has been arrested, killed
and undergo to a rehab but herein, now President Duterte had strongly campaign about war on
drugs the one strongest evidence is Tokhang. Since operation in war on drugs started last July
1,2016. 7,080 people were killed as of January 30,2017 and 3,603 death victims that are under
investigation. In this particular study the researchers will broad and highlight President Duterte’s
effectiveness in dealing with Illegal Drugs in the Province of Bulacan. Specifically, it aims to
to identify whether or not President Duterte’s commitment in dealing with Illegal Drugs was
effective and as well as its War on Drugs helps to minimize the usage of illegal drugs in the
Province of Bulacan. The researchers also want to determine the result and effect to the people
concerned to this topic. The outcome of this study would be a contribution to the knowledge of
To the Community. This research will provide awareness to the community about the war on
drugs and how this campaign works for the users of illegal drugs.
To the Parents. The result of the study will help the parents on how guide their children to
To the Drug Users. This study will help the users of illegal drugs to be aware of what will
To the Future researchers. This study will serve as a reference material and a guideline for
future researcher who wishes to conduct me study related to war on drugs of President Duterte.
on Drugs in the 21 towns and 3 cities of the province of Bulacan in the year 2016-2017.
The researcher is only limited on what is available in the internet, library and department of
Furthermore, the data that the researcher will use are only those available in ** from June
30,2016 up to
DEFINITIONS OF TERMS
Illegal Drugs – A drug is a substance that affects the body functions. If a druf is classified as
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regulated.
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War on Drugs – is a series of actions tending toward a prohibition of illegal drug trade.
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Rehabilitate – to restore a good condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
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Tokhang – to knock on a suspected drug trafficker or drug addicts home to persuade them to
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CHAPTER II
Due to related drug problems in various countries there are lots of theories, literature,
studies and etc. conducted in order to solve the drugs addiction which is considered a major
obstacle in attaining long lasting peace and hindrance in economic and social progress.
Relevant Theories
There are lots of studies conducted to theorize on how to solve this illegal drugs
problem of society.
Deterrence Theory is one of the theories that can be used to suppress drug problems in
the country. This theory was used in the War on Drug of 80s in the US led by their then president
Richard Dixon. Consequently, the deterrent element of incarceration has become a dominant tool
in the War on Drugs in an attempt to deter potential offenders and reduce recidivism. The
objective of these policies was to reduce the harms caused by illegal drugs use by reducing
Deterrence theory says that people obey the law because they are scared of getting caught
and being punished instead of being motivated by some deep moral sense. According to
deterrence theory, people are most likely to be dissuaded from committing a crime if the
On the other hand tougher laws and prosecution under the banner of deterrence has
resulted in a reduction of judicial discretion and an unequal enforcement of the law. This unequal
application of the law is not a direct result of Deterrence Theory, but one of the unfortunate
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Ph. D. involves the proposition that drug abuse occurs when a prone individual is exposed to a
high level of availability. Treatment of a drug abuser should be successful only where large
Related Literature
Illegal drugs are still one of the major problems in many countries around the world.
Here in the Philippines when Duterte became the president a ruthless war against drugs
had taken countless lives of both guilty and innocent civilians either from police operations or
extra judicial killings. But there are also other countries who exercised the same type of anti-drug
campaign.
One certain example came from Thailand one of Philippines neighboring country. On
early 2000s the Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawarta engaged a bloody campaign against
drugs and criminality. This campaign had a lot in common with the anti-drugs campaign that is
currently ongoing in the Philippines. Just like the Philippines, Thailand had huge early successes
that led to a high support from the public. Thailand’s war on drugs was carried through
collaboration between local governors and police officers. The Government officials compiled
blacklists which led to arrests in many cases extra judicial killings. As the bodies piled up the
police claimed that most of the deaths resulted from rival drug cartels killing each other to
prevent betrayals from their accomplices. The Police targets mostly consisted of the small fish or
low level dealers rarely did the list contained the names of the actual drug lords themselves but
But after Taksin Shinawarta’s reign an official investigation was made and showed that
out of 2500 people that are killed in the campaign more or less 1400 were innocent even the
profitable drug routes remained intact and protected by the Myanmar and Thai Bureaucracy and
business elites. Thailand’s experience showed that the real culprits often escaped the extralegal
approach to solve the drug related problem. It wasn’t just Thailand who tried the same method.
Columbia and Mexico also tried the same method decades ago but after thousands of deaths they
to failed.
(source= theconversation.com)
Despite Thailand’s Failure another neighboring country “Indonesia” wanted to copy the
same methods in dealing with illegal drugs. Indonesian president Jowko “Jokowi” Widodo wants
to commit his country to do same campaign. He ordered the police to shoot foreign drug dealers
who would try to resist arrest. And claimed that Indonesia is in emergency in narcotics problem
(Source=www.voanews.com)
Related Study
There are lots of studies conducted in order to solve Illegal Drugs problem around the
world.
The book “Peaceful Measures: Canada's Way Out of the War on Drugs” by B K
Alexander argues that Canada's "war on drugs" has been a costly failure and should be replaced
by "peaceful" measures for addressing the harmful effects of drug use. This book contains an
analysis of whether the war on drugs has achieved its objectives concludes that it has failed to
control drug abuse as a social problem, has failed to deter drug use, and has created serious new
problems.
Conceptual Framework
This research aims to determine whether or not the actions taken by President Duterte has
a huge impact in the rehabilitation of the drug addicts which was arrested by the police and as
well as those who voluntarily surrendered or it just another useless program set by the
government. President Duterte’s campaign against Illegal Drugs was the aggressive one which
causes a huge number of deaths of alleged addict and many drug users voluntarily surrendered
ILLEGAL DRUGS
GOVERNMENT
AGGRESSIVE PEACEFUL
WAR ON DRUGS REHABILITATION, SEMINARS,
Null Hypothesis
safety and its campaign against War on Drugs is just another useless program set by the
government.
Alternate Hypothesis
and its campaign against War on Drugs has a huge impact in the rehabilitation of the drug
addicts which was arrested by the police and as well as those who voluntarily
surrendered.