At least 700,000 drug dependents who had turned themselves in to authorities are refusing treatment for their drug addiction, the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) said on Thursday.

DDB Secretary Benjamin Reyes made the disclosure during a congressional hearing on pending bills that seek to establish more drug rehabilitation centers in the country amid the Duterte administration’s intensified war on drugs.

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