What is the Anti-Terrorism Act? In early 2020, the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 was introduced in the Philippines as a replacement to the 2007 Human Security Act. The Act includes a broad definition of terrorism, including acts “to provoke or influence by intimidation the government or any of its ...
Keeping Our Participants Alive: Drug Court Successes, Failures, and the Opioid Epidemic
Summary: Despite their successes, traditional drug courts fail to help opioid addicts. The creation of an opioid-specific intervention court attempts to change this. Fewer things have swept the nation as quickly or as violently as the opioid crisis. Claiming the lives of some 64,000 Americans in ...
Law and Order: The Philippine War on Drugs
Summary: In the year and a half since Rodrigo Duterte became president of the Philippines, thousands of Filipinos have died as a result of his extreme anti-drug policies. On June 30th 2016, Rodrigo Duterte assumed office as the 16th president of the Philippines. He was elected by a landslide, ...