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Same case in the Philippines, but the War on Drugs mainly affected the poor or under the line of poverty this is why the previous president got convicted and now investigated by the ICC.

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It says a lot to me that Rodrigo Duterte, ex Philippines president famous for encouraging drug-abuser genocide— and the American state of Oregon, which decriminalized most drugs in 2020 only to re-criminalize them in 2024— both seemed powerless to resolve unaffordable housing and healthcare, key causes behind most public drug-use grievance.

I have been around plenty of rich people and there’s no shortage of unhealthy illegal drug use. However, because they’re not unhoused and wandering the streets, they aren’t understood to be a public pain point. Their problems and tragedies remain out-of-view.

Lopsided prosperity contributing to lopsided basic-need affordability is the puppeteer behind headline-grabbing drug use and homelessness.

The unwillingness to re-distribute unearned prosperity that was dubiously distributed upwards back downwards is why some now see a need for involuntary abduction and treatment for substance abuse:

Having your own home and paid bills is an unattainable “treatment.”

It confronts the powerful if you frame the issue properly,  expect that fact to keep what is right hidden.