{"id":227114,"date":"2019-08-16T22:43:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T02:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=227114"},"modified":"2019-08-16T22:43:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T02:43:08","slug":"pdea-lauds-pup-random-drug-test-on-students-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/16\/pdea-lauds-pup-random-drug-test-on-students-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"PDEA lauds PUP random drug test on students, employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_227115\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-227115\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/68246870_2309709122691444_3991383455442141184_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-227115\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/68246870_2309709122691444_3991383455442141184_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/68246870_2309709122691444_3991383455442141184_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/68246870_2309709122691444_3991383455442141184_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/68246870_2309709122691444_3991383455442141184_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-227115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PDEA Director General Aaron Aquino hailed the initiative of PUP president Dr. Emanuel de Guzman, stressing that the measure is in line with a directive of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PhilippineDrugEnforcementAgency\/photos\/a.1949062668756093\/2309709119358111\/?type=3&amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PhilippineDrugEnforcementAgency\/\">PDEA Top Stories\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Friday welcomed the Polytechnic University of the Philippines&#8217; (PUP) move to have students and faculty members undergo random drug tests, in support to the government&#8217;s anti-drug campaign.<\/p>\n<p>PDEA Director General Aaron Aquino hailed the initiative of PUP president Dr. Emanuel de Guzman, stressing that the measure is in line with a directive of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).<\/p>\n<p>Section 36 (Authorized Drug Testing) (a) of Republic Act 9165, The Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, states that \u201cStudents of secondary and tertiary schools shall, pursuant to the related rules and regulation as contained in the school\u2019s student handbook and with notice to the parents, undergo drug testing: provided that all drug testing expenses whether in public or private schools under this section will be borne by the government; provided further that the Department of Education and the Commission on Higher Education, as the case maybe, shall see to it that this provision is implemented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some 800 students from five colleges and 200 employees and faculty members underwent random drug test on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe support of the academe to the national anti-drug campaign is helping keep our country and the future Filipino generations free from dangerous drugs,\u201d Aquino said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope other colleges and universities will follow the lead of PUP,\u201d Aquino said.<\/p>\n<p>Aquino added that the PDEA will assist in giving intervention to students who tested positive.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Aquino said the common modus operandi of drug syndicates nowadays is to employ young recruits and give them the means to enroll in schools and universities not to study, but to entice and peddle illegal drugs to students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Friday welcomed the Polytechnic University of the Philippines&#8217; (PUP) move to have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":227115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227114","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\/227114","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=227114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227116,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227114\/revisions\/227116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}