MANILA, Philippines — Malacañan Palace urges the critics of the Duterte administration’s war on drugs campaign to “stop playing blind dumb” and take not that more Filipinos believe that there are fewer drug users now. In a statement issued on Saturday, presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo cited a recent survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations that showed 66 percent of Filipinos said that there were fewer drug addicts in their areas compared to last year. The war on drugs campaign was launched in July 2016 after President Rodrigo Duterte assumed office. It aims to lower down the number of illegal drug users and pushers nationwide. /atmREAD: PDEA: Almost 5,000 killed in Duterte’s war on drugs as of Oct. 2018ADVERTISEMENTRead NextLATEST STORIESMOST READ

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 16, 2019 09:56 UTC