Camps as rehab centers ‘practical’

President Rodrigo Duterte’s plan to build additional drug rehabilitation centers (DRCs) inside military camps is a “practical strategy,” according to a lawmaker.

“We really have to cure loads of users if we are to lessen in a big way the demand side of the drug problem. There will always be suppliers--traffickers and pushers--as long as we have users generating the demand. And the capacity of existing DRCs, both public and private, is grossly inadequate,” Atienza, former three-term mayor of Manila and now Buhay party-list representative in Congress, said in a statement on Tuesday.