{"id":193691,"date":"2018-12-12T05:35:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T10:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=193691"},"modified":"2018-12-12T05:35:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T10:35:57","slug":"pdea-to-intensify-crackdown-vs-drugs-during-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/12\/12\/pdea-to-intensify-crackdown-vs-drugs-during-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"PDEA to intensify crackdown vs drugs during the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_94792\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94792\" style=\"width: 409px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/12027586_730648823738832_2749420254825727407_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94792\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/12027586_730648823738832_2749420254825727407_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/12027586_730648823738832_2749420254825727407_n.jpg 409w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/12027586_730648823738832_2749420254825727407_n-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) will intensify its operations, particularly against party drugs in time for the Christmas season. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pdeammro\/photos\/a.730630460407335.1073741827.730628350407546\/730648823738832\/?type=1&amp;amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pdeammro\/\">Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency &#8211; PDEA\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"margin: 20px 0px;color: #000000;font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">MANILA<\/span>\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) will intensify its operations, particularly against party drugs in time for the Christmas season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 20px 0px;color: #000000;font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">PDEA Director General Aaron Aquino said the agency will conduct anti-drug operations in high-end bars, hotels, condominiums, and posh villages to catch people using party drugs like ecstasy and kush in Christmas parties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 20px 0px;color: #000000;font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">&#8220;I assume there will be an increase in consumption, especially [that there are] parties [left and right] today and the PDEA will not stop in going around the metropolis to find out and check if [party drugs] are being used especially in rave parties,&#8221; Aquino told reporters a in press conference on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 20px 0px;color: #000000;font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">Despite this, Aquino said the supply of drugs went down based on their test buy operations nationwide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 20px 0px;color: #000000;font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">He explained that the prices of the contraband went up from PHP1,000 to around PHP2,000 to PHP3,000 per gram, caused by the low supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) will intensify its operations, particularly against party drugs in time for the Christmas &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":94792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-christopher-lloyd-caliwan","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193691","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}