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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Are addicts ‘eternally’ hooked on drugs?

By Vera Files | Jan 23, 2017 5:05 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte is now likening addicts to slaves, describing them as eternally dependent on drugs.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Drug addiction not a medical problem?

Nov 05, 2016 2:55 PM

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte shuns the idea that drug addiction is a medical condition with a cure. For him, drug users are the “living walking dead” whose brains have already shrunk, and who have become useless to society. On Oct. 27, in his arrival speech from Japan, Duterte said: STATEMENT: “Eh sabi nila, (drug addiction is) […]

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