Elizabeth Trudeau, a State Department spokeswoman, said Monday that the United States was “concerned.” “We believe in rule of law. We believe in due process. We believe in respect for universal human rights,” she told reporters. […]

In a homily delivered later on Sunday, Catholic leader Archbishop Socrates Villegas condemned the latest killings, saying, “I am in utter disbelief. If this is just a nightmare, wake me up and assure me it is not true. This is too much to swallow. […]

About 800 people have been killed since Duterte won a landslide election in May, according to reports by the local press which has been tracking the maverick politician’s campaign pledge to kill tens of thousands of criminals. […]

People who use drugs recreationally do not want to harm themselves—quite the opposite. Without major changes to drug laws, the work of organizations like DanceSafe, The Loop and others will remain essential if unnecessary drug deaths and hospitalizations are to be reduced. It is #TimeToTest. […]

Police wrap their lifeless heads in tape and cardboard scrawled with the tag ‘pusher ako’. It’s a sign to the community that this person who lays dead on a street was a drug dealer. You should not remember their face. You should not see them as human. You should not cry. […]

“A redirection of focus and funds away from repressive policies should happen with evidence-based approaches such as harm reduction and community-based drug dependence treatment as the priority, rather than coercive or non-evidence based models,” said Rick Lines of Harm Reduction International. […]

Civil society groups from across the globe, including prominent human rights NGOs, have called on UN drug control authorities to urge an immediate stop to the extrajudicial killings of suspected drug offenders in the Philippines. Since 10th May 2016, more than 700 people have been killed by police and vigilantes in the Philippines for being suspected of using or dealing…

People in the slums of Manila are living in fear after new Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte called on police and vigilantes to kill drug suspects. […]

For emergency doctors with an interest in illicit toxicology, the arrival of the summer months in Australia signals, like some sort of grotesque seasonal cuckoo, the beginning of the music festival season. With it, the entirely predictable and unnecessary deaths of young Australians from illicit substance ingestion. […]

More completely and more quickly than any of the “classic” drugs, the creation and existence of NPS has forced two of the thorniest issues in drug policy to the fore: whether altered states are even allowable, and whether it should possible for anyone to profit off of them. Answering these two questions will force an end, one way or another,…