This article identifies the early dictatorship of former President Ferdinand Marcos as a significant moment in drug … notion of episodic history, it shows how the Marcos government capitalized on the idea of a 'drug menace' and narrativized … the ideal of 'discipline' to justify its authoritarian regime and establish a heavily prohibitionist and punitive drug …

its authorities on the issue of drug control. However, the room for manoeuvring the Bureau was limited, mainly because of … the resilience of the drug economy and the politicised regulations. Struggling in the narrow space between the colonial … short-lived. Its history reveals the resilience of both licit and illicit drug economy and the power struggles that resulted …

these populations. Bio-behavioral surveys focused on injection drug use can be useful but are expensive and have not always … (AU) to collect drug-use data from drug treatment facilities is undermined by the dearth of facilities addressing the drug … sustained regular monitoring of drug use. But meaningful participation in data collection may be contingent on both concerted …