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The government had directed drugmakers in late 2023 to upgrade plants to norms recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), including measures to prevent cross-contamination and enable batch testing.
Indonesia cannot afford any delay in its extant healthcare programs for tuberculosis, malaria or HIV/AIDS, and should instead consolidate its COVID-19 response to maintain these essential health services.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte renewed on Friday a threat to kill drug dealers after police seized 756 kg of methamphetamines, a haul he said proved the Southeast Asian country had become a transhipment point for narcotics.
Tens of thousands of people in the Philippines may have been killed in the war on drugs since mid-2016, amid "near impunity" for police and incitement to violence by top officials, the United Nations said on Thursday.
Relatives of some of the thousands killed in the Philippines' war on drugs acted out their journey of loss and healing in a theatre performance in Manila on Wednesday, capping a month-long therapy program for grieving urban poor families.
Advocates pushing for the legalization of cannabis (the scientific name of marijuana) as medicine scored a virtual victory when the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) recently approved “in principle” a resolution to allow the use of cannabidiol (CBD) for alleviating severe forms of epilepsy.
Synthetic drugs seem to be everywhere in the Asia Pacific these days. A typical week has reports of yet another 5 or 10 million yaba methamphetamine tablets seized, another ton of crystal meth — the story is never-ending and region-wide.
The Indonesian Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) has suspended sales of drugs containing ranitidine, commonly used to treat stomach problems, following reports from the United States and Europe that the medication may be contaminated with a carcinogenic substance.
Responding to the current dearth of empirical evidence, DPP, LBH Masyarakat and our partners plan to study the deterrent effects of capital punishment on individual drug use, but also at the systemic level, looking at the nature of drug markets and their social impact on public health and crime rates.
