Comments by "John Walsh" (@johnwalsh4857) on "Japan's Post-War Meth Panic (& How They Stopped It) | Audio" video.

yah Thailand and the Philippines experienced these kinds of meth violence epidemics, however their response was a lot more brutal compared to the Japanese, Thailand was suffering from a Yaba(meth) epidemic a decade ago , the Thai gov response was to do shoot to kill orders on addicts and thousands were killed. Philippines under duterte recently also did the same thing with even more larger bodycount. However both Thailand and the PHilipiines were able to control their problems however the root cause was still there.
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@Trump2024asw Thailand and the PH failed to solve their problems since they did nto go to the root cause which was poverty and the drug lords who were pushing the drugs to the users, reason: The drug lords were rich and influential and were friends of the very same Thai and Filipino politicos who were out killing the addicts, when the addicts were properly culled and the crime rate much lowered back again to pushing drugs.
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In the Philippines the shabu(meth) epidemic is so bad, that they did a study in a Tondo neighbourhood(the poorest most dangerous district in Manila) and found that 90 percent of adults ages from 5 to 65 were addicted to meth. Interestingly the same people addicted to meth voted fro President Duterte who later killed thousands of them.
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Duterte's war on drugs from 2016 to 2022 killed officially 7K people but unofficial estimate probably 20K to 30K died from police crackdowns.
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@Trump2024asw also the Thai and PH govs are in collusion with teh drug lords, and their politicos get rich from the bribes. They even cook meth in Manila prisons with full knowledge of the PH gov
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