{"id":100720,"date":"2017-05-02T22:33:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T02:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=100720"},"modified":"2017-05-02T22:33:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T02:33:56","slug":"drug-problem-in-phl-now-a-national-security-threat-pdea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/02\/drug-problem-in-phl-now-a-national-security-threat-pdea\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug problem in PHL now a national security threat \u2013PDEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_100724\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100724\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/10262139_332403836931953_4457226836407083813_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100724\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/10262139_332403836931953_4457226836407083813_n.jpg\" alt=\"Lapena spoke before the &quot;RealNumbersPH&quot; forum of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO), together with the PDEA, Philippine National Police (PNP), Department of Health (DOH), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) held at Crowne Plaza Hotel in Ortigas Avenue, Pasig City on Tuesday. (Photo: Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency by Morilou Caceres Rebancos\/ Facebook)\" width=\"265\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lapena spoke before the &#8220;RealNumbersPH&#8221; forum of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO), together with the PDEA, Philippine National Police (PNP), Department of Health (DOH), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) held at Crowne Plaza Hotel in Ortigas Avenue, Pasig City on Tuesday. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/332402093598794\">Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency by Morilou Caceres Rebancos\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2013The drug problem in the country has now become a national security threat, according to Philippine Drugs Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Isidro Lapena.<\/p>\n<p>Lapena spoke before the &#8220;RealNumbersPH&#8221; forum of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO), together with the PDEA, Philippine National Police (PNP), Department of Health (DOH), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) held at Crowne Plaza Hotel in Ortigas Avenue, Pasig City on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lapena said that the effects in the country of the Php 120-billion a year illegal drug industry should not be trivialized.<\/p>\n<p>He noted the contagious effect drug users or pushers have on their family and community members.<\/p>\n<p>The PDEA chief said that addicts or users could easily influence other people to get into drugs, who in turn, influence other people at an exponential rate.<\/p>\n<p>Lapena said that it was when the problem reached such a magnitude that not only the country&#8217;s peace and order was affected, but the economy as well.<\/p>\n<p>He added that on the subject of real numbers, President Rodrigo Duterte&#8217;s often-mentioned figure of 4 million drug users in the country is actually incorrect, as the real number is closer to 4.7 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2013The drug problem in the country has now become a national security threat, according to Philippine Drugs Enforcement Agency (PDEA) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":100724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[18598,18596,18597],"class_list":["post-100720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-director-general-isidro-lapena","tag-drug-problem","tag-philippine-drugs-enforcement-agency","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}