The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) is working to attain a zero drug inventory and zero illegal drug dependency in the country. PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva said the goal is not farfetched as they are now working to clear the remaining 10,410 barangays from influence of...
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Wilkins Villanueva insisted on Tuesday, May 31, that the thousands of death in the government's drug war was because those who died put up a fight against anti-narcotics operatives. “To the persistent critics (of the government’s drug...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) destroyed 99.9 million worth of dangerous drugs through thermal destruction on Monday, May 30, in Cebu City. Thermal destruction or thermolysis is a method of decomposition or breaking down of chemicals by heat. At 1,000 degrees centigrade, all...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) has distributed more than P10 million cash to 13 confidential informants who helped the agency in the conduct of 22 successful anti-drug operations in various parts of the country. PDEA Director General Wilkins M. Villanueva handed out the monetary...
Drivers and other personnel from the transport at the Parañaque Integrated Terminal Exchange (PITX) tested negative in the drug tests conducted last week. With millions expected to troop to the provinces ahead of the Holy Week break, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) conducted random...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and its partner government agencies conducted simultaneous surprise mandatory drug tests of bus drivers and conductors on Friday, Aprip 8, to ensure the safety of the riding public trooping to the provinces for the Holy Week season break. PDEA Director...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) has expressed deep concern over the dramatic rise in the illegal drug trafficking activities using the Internet. With the Covid-19 pandemic, PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva drug traffickers took advantage of the “technological boom’’...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) has reported a 460 percent increase increase in the smuggling of Methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA), popularly known as ecstasy, into the country. “Smuggling of ecstasy is expanding in the last three years. It grew from 13,000 tablets in 2019 to...
Marijuana has now dislodged shabu or methamphetamine hydrochloride as the most preferred illegal drugs of the country’s users “both on the demand and supply side," the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) bared Friday, March 25. (Courtesy of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency) Locally...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) announced Friday, March 18, that the recent successful operations resulting in the seizure of multi-billion peso worth of illegal drugs were unrelated to the May 2022 national and local elections . In a radio interview over Dobol B TV, PDEA Director...
Two Chinese drug suspects were arrested by law enforcers while P20.4 million worth of methampethamine hydrochloride or "shabu" were allegedly seized from them in a buy-bust operation in Quezon City Wednesday night, March 9. PDEA logo The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) identified the...
The Illegal drug trade will continue in the country as long as there are people addicted to them, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Wilkins Villanueva said on Wednesday night, Mar. 2. Villanueva made the comment when pressed why illegal drugs from foreign distributors...
