Over 200 groups adopt plan to promote evidence-based health program for drug users

Over 200 Filipino and foreign stakeholders adopted the Manila Declaration on Creating Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI) systems in a conference, according to the US Embassy in the Philippines.

US Embassy in Manila

MANILA, Philippines — Groups have adopted the declaration that promotes the use of evidence-based health treatment for drug users while, at the same time, seek to have reforms in the country’s criminal justice system. 

Over 200 Filipino and foreign stakeholders adopted the Manila Declaration on Creating Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI) systems in a conference, according to the US Embassy in the Philippines. 

“By spending our time to learn and share, we are making a sound investment and bridging pathways to ensure that friends, families, community members and society as a whole have what they need to not only survive, but to thrive,” US Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) Director Kelia Cummins said. 

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